Kristen Gurekovich
\nThe Tyrone Area Middle and High School Student Councils attended a district IV conference at Altoona Area High School in Altoona, Pennsylvania on April 23, 2003. At the conference, motivational speaker, Mark Scharenbroich, and Governor Rendell, talked to Student Council members about educational issues in their schools.
\nDuring the presentation, Mr. Scharenbroich brought up many interesting opinions and various suggestions for our own schools.
\nFirst, among all, was academics. Although our school has many pictures of school athletes hanging in the hallways and especially in the main gym lobby, a school that has PSSA scores among the top in the state may also want to recognize those with the highest PSSA or SAT scores, and Valedictorian and Salutatorian pictures. Other suggestions included a mural of senior \u201chands\u201d where all the seniors leave a lasting impression on their \u201chome away from home\u201d with their hand prints on a painted wall.
\nAlso, at Central Cambria High School, a young girl paints quotes on the wall, and then erases them every other week to put up another. Murals in general just bring schools alive.
\nKylie Grassmyer said, \u201cArt on the walls and in the hallways would be a great addition.\u201d And when asked if our school needed some revision to liven it up or make it more of a \u201clive-able\u201d space, 90% of the students surveyed answered \u201cyes.\u201d
\nStudent here at Tyrone also had some ideas of their own. Chris Chamberlain, said, \u201cI think we should have couches in every classroom, \u201chave assemblies of local bands playing, or save money all year and get a big concert with a popular band- the band would be voted on.\u201d
\nJenna Simondale said, \u201cColor on the walls in the bathrooms, they are so boring and they look like jail cells.\u201d Cont to pg. 8 Student Council (Cont. from pg. 7) Mark\u2019s suggestion to us? \u201c[Make restrooms] more like the resorts in Hawaii and less like the Shawshank Redemption.\u201d
\nJustin Clark stated that \u201cmore pictures of athletes on the walls,\u201d would make a great addition to liven up our school environment. \tTerry Tate said that various murals painted around the school would be \u201ccool, as long as I get one.\u201d
\nAmong the 40 Student Council students that attended the conference, Dan Domenick was gregarious and asked many questions and had many comments. \u201cI thought Rendell already got elected!\u201d he said. \tAlthough the Governor\u2019s appeal may have sounded like an election campaign, he did not talk down to the students ; instead, the governor talked to the delegates as equals.
\n\tThe subjects and principles that were brought up in the Altoona Area High School auditorium left us in wonder and amazement concerning how students can help make their school a \u201chome away from home.\u201d
\n\tConsider this ending quote paraphrased by former president, John F. Kennedy:
\n\u201cAsk not what your school can do for you, but what you can do for your school!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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