After having an election and having students put into office, Cross students found out that their student council was terminated no more. In addition to the student council activist’s politics club was also disbanded after he organized a downtown protest in favor of more spending on textbooks and less on administrators.
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| Isaiah Lee |
Isaiah Lee, who was elected as council president last year, said he was not directly informed of the decision.“Ms. Moore did not inform anyone the decision was made that no one knew of,” Lee said. Instead, he found out the news though an email last week.
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| Ms. Moore |
Moore said Thursday that the school has no student council at the moment and is working to rebuild one that better represents Cross. Student council should not be “a group of elitist kids that say, ‘We run Cross,’” as it was in the past, Moore said. “We want total inclusion in the building.” Cross is often described as having two schools within one: a small AP/honors track (to which Moore was referring) and the general student population. Lee said he doesn’t plan to be involved in the student council’s new incarnation. He has decided to step back from the council and focus on getting into college next year. But he objected to the way the decision was made the latest in the line of decisions being made without student input. “I personally don’t feel it’s fair to these other students who worked so hard, to have all that taken away,” he said. Is this fair?
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