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Student trustees tour area high schools
Stew Slater
Student trustees of the Avon Maitland
District School Board will be logging some
miles during the 2005-06 school year.
Each year, a .different group of student
trustees -- one representative from each Avon
Maitland secondary school - gathers for a
minimum of two meetings per month, gener-
ally on the same evening as the board's gener-
al meetings.
They hear presentations from administra-
tive staff about different initiatives of the
board, discuss issues related to students, and
sometimes send requests, inquiries or infor-
mation bulletins to the publicly -elected
trustees.
Usually, one or two of the student trustees
remains in the Seaforth-based Avon Maitland
headquarters to attend the public meeting of
the board, on an observer basis.
Beyond that, there's variability year by year
regarding the degree to which each group of
student trustees involves itself in board
affairs or student governance issues.
This year, Avon Maitland's student trustees
have taken two unprecedented steps toward
making themselves aware of the viewpoints of
their counterparts both within the board and
beyond.
At a general meeting Tuesday, Nov. 22,
Stratford Northwestern Secondary School
representative Thea VanDenTempel informed
the Avon Maitland board that student
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trustees have begun giving each other tours of
each of the board's high schools.
Speaking to reporters following the meet-
ing, she said student trustees hope to "see
how each school is run ... so when we talk
about stuff that's going on at the school, we
have a better understanding of what the other
(student) trustee is talking about."
Tours have already been conducted at
Listowel District Secondary School and
Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton.
The two Stratford -based high schools are
next on the list, to be visited prior to the
Christmas break, and the rest of the tours
will be completed in 2006.
Student trustees will also be travelling fur-
ther afield, however, with representatives
from every high school expected to attend a
conference Nov. 30 at King City Secondary
School in the York Region District School
Board.
The conference explores the concept of
"character education," which aims to build
strong citizenship values within students by
incorporating various initiatives into existing
curriculum and programming.
Developing character education has been a
focus for the entire Avon Maitland board this
year -- including a series of three well -attend-
ed "community forums" which wrapped up
last week in Mitchell - and VanDenTempel
said the student trustee group has taken that
to heart by endeavouring to send representa-
tives to the York Region conference.
Jeff Heuchert photo
Scott Vande Borne (left), 13, and Greg Godin (right), 14, brave the snowy weath-
er Nov. 24 by biking down Main Street to the GT Mini Mart in Seaforth.