Students weigh in on school policies as part of VUSD Superintendent's Advisory Committee

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Students are getting a accidental astir what happens connected field and successful the schoolroom successful the Visalia Unified School District.

Diego Media-Gutierrez is simply a Senior astatine El Diamante High.

He's besides the ASB President and 1 of the dozens students who marque up the Superintendent's Advisory Committee.

"We speech implicit a batch of schoolhouse policy." Medina-Gutierrez said.

Superintendent Kirk Shrum created the committee erstwhile helium archetypal arrived successful the territory 3 years ago.

He says helium wanted to perceive straight from students.

"The topics are wide ranging. Everything from 'Tell maine things that you deliberation it's important to cognize astir the school.' 'What's going well?' 'What's things we tin improve?' All the mode to helping plan the strategical plan." Shrum said.

The radical meets connected a monthly basis.

Because of feedback from the students, implicit the past twelvemonth they moved from virtual meetings to immoderate in-person meetings astatine the territory office.

Shrum says students are from each 42 sites crossed the territory and they are outspoken.

"They are energized. They are not shy astir telling maine what they think." Shrum said.

Medina-Gutierrez says 1 of the large topics they've discussed this twelvemonth was compartment telephone policies connected campus.

"So it was conscionable truly large seeing, like, the antithetic perspectives from similar each students." Medina Gutierrez said. "Some students advocated for a stricter policy, and past different students progressive advocated for a small spot much lenient."

He says they besides discussed ways to amended admit students for their achievements.

Student input was implemented precocious arsenic VUSD released its five-year strategical plan.

One of the 3 themes includes empowering students, engaging families and the community.

Specifically directing the territory to "Establish pupil acknowledgement systems that grant and admit a wide scope of pupil achievement."

Medina-Gutierrez says he's grateful to spot the territory instrumentality their feedback and use it.

"I deliberation it's truly large that the district, similar the territory level, they truly bash attraction astir their students." Medina-Gutierriez said. "I deliberation that's large due to the fact that it's benignant of hard to marque alteration astatine the schoolhouse level and I conscionable deliberation it's large that they're having this astatine the territory level."

The superintendent says he's ever looking for ways to amended the committee truthful helium volition beryllium seeking constructive disapproval from those who are portion of it.

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