Caption: The Junior class listens to Sofia give her speech as a candidate for class treasurer. [photo by Dr. Cristina Meier]
by Pablo Solis Cezar de Andrade (Warrior Post Reporter / São Paulo, Brazil)
PACA students recently elected new class officers during the first two weeks of homeroom during daily scheduled homeroom time, to provide student leadership that will guide each grade throughout the school year.
The student council organization (known as STUCO) is a part of PACA’s identity and provides opportunities for high school students to take on leadership positions among their peers. They also provide a connection between students and their teachers and school administration in regards to student life at PACA.
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Before students are given a leadership position, each homeroom has the opportunity to nominate candidates and hold an election to decide who will take on the responsibility of a specific leadership position. Some homeroom teachers let students nominate themselves.
Regardless of the process of nomination, they had the option of accepting or declining the nomination. Those that accepted gave a speech during homeroom. After every one that was nominated, classmates voted for their personal choice among the candidates.
Each grade needs at least one candidate to run for the positions of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, social life and spiritual life coordinators.
The current class presidents elected for each high school grade are senior Leonardo Pedrozo, junior Felipe Pedrozo and freshman Josue Jeon. Sophomore Davi Magalhães, the vice-president for their class, is temporarily acting as the president until new elections can be made within the class.
Once the positions of all the class officers are chosen, they must all work together for the good of the class. The vice presidents for each class have the additional responsibility of reporting to STUCO in order to schedule fund raisers for their class throughout the year.
As ninth grade class president, Josue Jeon is following the footsteps of his siblings by being president. Both of his older sisters were STUCO leaders.
“I think there is a lot of potential in the new STUCO,” said Jeon. “I think they will do an overall good job.”
Magalhães had previous experience as a class officer. He hopes that STUCO is able to affect students and PACA for the good of the community. Magalhães said that STUCO is one of the best ways for students to be represented and is a voice of the students when students need to communicate with administration.
The eleventh grade president, Felipe Pedrozo, is new to student leadership, but he is hoping to influence students in this new position.
“If the STUCO does a good job,” said Pedrozo, “Which hopefully they will do, the students will be more likely to want to go to STUCO since they are getting inspired by STUCO officers.”
Pedrozo hopes that by working hard, he can show students that STUCO can be a place of change and improvement for the school.
In twelfth grade, Pedro Tartoni may not be the class president, but he is president of STUCO, which is a new leadership role for him. He hopes to do his best as president and has some specific plans and goals for his class.
Tartoni said his plans include “fundraising for the first two weeks and making changes for the popshop.”
Each class president will be working closely with the other class officers also elected for their homeroom to do great things throughout the school year.
