Big news in the development of the Dover Dilemma - I did it.
Yes, I’ve done it.
Last Wednesday (8 days ago), I attended a meeting of the “Health and Wellness” committee, a Board of Education committee. I’ve been attending these meetings as a representative of the Student Council for a few months now, and I decided to finally leverage my presence there to bring about some good.
As we were speaking about the “health and wellness” of the high school, I matter-of-factly mentioned how Administration didn’t have the funds for our routine spring leadership assembly and that I was struggling to create an alternative assembly for the students. My (completely awesome) District Superintendent said he was shocked to hear this and rather ashamed.
He found us some money in the budget and the Student Council booked a speaker. I didn’t write about it earlier because I wanted the speaker to be booked before I celebrated any victory. I didn’t even tell my friends about it to not get their hopes up. It was hard keeping it all a secret, but worth it.
Although that’s only one of many problems plaguing Dover right now from my perspective, this solution is a good start in solving them.
Yay Ricky!!