Student Council President Catherine Sposato addresses the Passaic Board of Education at a board meeting after gaining a seat on the board. Photo by Ms. Ruiz.

By Bianca Pottinger, Aleyshka Barbosa, and Jessica Sanchez

A new board position created a unique opportunity for students’ voices to be heard by policy makers. The Passaic High School Student Council President now has a seat on the district’s Board of Education after the board at a public meeting approved a new policy.

Passaic High School Student Council Presedent Catherine Sposato was sworn in and has assumed the new duties.

Other advancements have occurred in the Student Council. During the recent months at PHS, the Student Council met to start to create plans to make changes in the school. The student government formed a committee of members who were willing to find a way to hear from the student body.

The student committee created a survey that would help the student government understand the areas that the student body wanted to see a change in.

Over 1,250 students answered the survey showing that the students want to be heard, they want to see change occur. The student survey gave students the opportunity to express what they think of different topics such as uniforms, bathroom policies, etc.

“We want the student body to help the cause. The students gave us the blueprints and now we have to start building,” said Sposato.

This survey could have had a better outcome, being that the population of the school is much greater than the number of students who answered the survey.

Even so, this is only the start; the Student Council is still working on different ideas and projects that are still being deliberated.

“We work to serve the student body, this is the first of many actions we will take to create a better future for the classes to come” stated the Student Council’s Director of Communications Committee.