Homecoming, schoolwide reunions, fundraising events, et al… I think it is quite obvious that many high school student councils are only concerned with trivial and low-prioirty events going on in the school. The class presidents are generally the most popular and athletic students of the school. The student body wouldn’t dare elect a student who…
The Asheville Citizen-Times set me up as one of their community bloggers. I’m blogging about my project to add a student adviser on the school board, student rights and student issues at http://miva.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/miva?blogs+blog_id=aking.
After a close election, NYRA’s membership has spoken. The membership has elected Jessica Campbell, Scott Davidson, Zach Hobesh, Alex Hull-Richter, Adam King, Alex Koroknay-Palicz, Keith Mandell, Katrina Moncure, and Pamela Tatz to sit on the NYRA board of directors for the 2006-2007 term. All of the candidates were well qualified, and everyone on this board…
On August 5, 2006, NYRA members met in San Francisco to listen to speakers, hear about the events of the past year, and discuss youth rights with activists from throughout the country. This year’s annual meeting was the best NYRA has ever had. The meeting began with a film entitled Les Enfants Perdus De Tranquility…
On Thursday, July 20, I held a public forum and press conference in downtown Asheville. My goal in doing so was to show the Buncombe County Board of Education how many people actually support having a student adviser on the school board. Members from the media included WLOS-TV, 570 AM WWNC, and Mountain Xpress. All…
Excerpts from a Q and A with Dr. John A. Cagle, Parliamentarian of the Academic Senate and Professor of Communication at California State University, Fresno There is no such thing as a 2/3 majority. The correct language is a 2/3 vote. Majority in law and parliamentary procedure always means “more than half.” Abstentions are never…
USA Today, which is among the country’s most widely circulated publications, recently quoted NYRA’s Executive Director in an article on teen driving. Specifically, the article dealt with a report put out by the National Highway Safety Administration, which presented a biased, anti-youth interpretation of driving fatality statistics aimed at convincing states to make seventeen the…
The 2006 board election started on July 5 and will last until August 5. Eleven NYRA members are running, the full list: Jessica Campbell, Scott Davidson (incumbent), Zach Hobesh, Alex Hull-Richter, Rich Jahn, Adam King, Alex Koroknay-Palicz (incumbent), Keith Mandell (incumbent), Katrina Moncure (incumbent), Chip Sinton, and Pamela Tatz (incumbent). All candidates have answered a…
NYRA Vermont, one of NYRA’s most active chapters, held an event called “Know Your Rights Day” on May 16 at the Vermont Commons School in Burlington. The event attracted dozens of students, as well as members of the local press. “Know Your Rights Day” consisted of a series of workshops pertaining to youth and student…
A group called Do Something has done a poll that went out and asked teens what they thought of the voting age. The results: “When results for a lower voting age are combined, there is a clear majority of young people who believe that the voting age should be lowered to at least 17. If…
