It s a big moment, so we turned to the experts for advice: current JCPS elementary schoolers.
Here are their top tips and words of wisdom for the district s newest learners.
Responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Presley Pierce, 9, Carter Traditional Elementary Make sure that you respect your teacher. Don t run in the halls. Respect the rules . Be nice to your bear buddy if you re in kindergarten or in fifth grade. Be kind to your classmates, and try to make them want to be there. Try to be really nice to your teacher; you respect your teacher, and just be really nice to other people and smile and just be kind.
Credit Ky. Dept. of Education
State senators voted Monday to strip the Kentucky Board of Education of its new non-voting student and teacher members.
Gov. Andy Beshear added the teacher position when he reorganized the board upon taking office in December 2019, appointing Rowan County special education teacher Allison Slone. He later added the student member: Jefferson County Public Schools student Solyana Mesfin, a junior at Eastern High School. Mesfin and Slone serve in an ex-officio, or non-voting advisory capacity, along with Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman and Council on Postsecondary Education president Aaron Thompson.
The bill passed by the Senate Monday would reorganize the board again requiring members of both major political parties. It would also require equal representation of men and women and “racial minority” representation based on the “total racial minority population” of the state.
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