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A note from the current scholar government President:

 

John Adams Academy (EDH) Scholar Government 

Brent Deml

 

The 2022-2023 year of Scholar Government comes at an exciting and important time in our school’s history. Last year, after coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, our Scholar Government presented our school with dances, events, movies, and service projects that were previously impossible. We were able to make a healthy profit, establishing us with a substantial budget for this year’s government. With this in mind, this year offers us with many opportunities for growth and prosperity within our government and within our school. We are welcoming our first ever class of seniors, we are constructing a second building, establishing sports teams at our campus for the first time ever, and have welcomed nearly 200 new scholars into our secondary program.

 

This year we shall be focused on continuing dances and events for secondary. Our goal is four a semester along with the formal ball for the Juniors and Seniors. We are looking to improve the rallies by creating games that can be played by large numbers of people. Along with these two main goals, our administration also seeks to take over Republic T-shirt sales, hold this year’s Entrepreneurial Fair, set into motion a foreign exchange student program, have more field trips for each grade, and purchase new sports equipment.

 

This year provides many unique opportunities for our scholar government to bring our school forward. Each member of our government has been elected and chosen by our scholar body, and will now utilize this year and what it has to offer to better our scholar body and continue the mission and values of John Adams Academy.

A note from the current scholar government Staff Mentor:

 

We have mature and determined scholars, however, sometimes we get sidetracked because our highest grade level is 9th and we are still learning the ropes of how a government meeting is supposed to look. We have made a lot of progress in our meetings and been able to achieve a lot of goals because of it. Our scholars have been able to introduce proposed bills in our monthly meetings and then pass on bills for admin passage (Dean Cammarota) and “put into law.” A few examples are: “spirit days” planned around Halloween, the Entrepreneurial Fair, and our first official secondary school dance.

 

We spent the first couple meetings in November (and late October) discussing how we wanted to advertise and set up for the 3rd Entrepreneurial Fair. We also set up a dance committee via our deme classrooms (1 per for a total of 12). The last 3 weeks our focus has been on planning for the dance. It is our first official secondary (7th-9th actually) dance after 2 and half years of existence. The scholars wanted that to be a priority and because of our meetings, we were able to make it happen. Scholar government has also reached out to our PSO for their assistance. They have been vital to our success and growth as a campus and we are extremely for their support and guidance.

 

I am very grateful to be a part of this process and I am so happy to see so many scholars from all secondary grades work together for a common cause. Each scholar embodies so many of our Core Values and they truly have the best interests of our campus at heart.

 

Lucas Swaika

Secondary Humanities Teacher