Crenshaw Student Council Leading the Way

Crenshaw Student Council Leading the Way Teaching our youth about leadership and community pride

By Nathan Clark

It’s amazing what young people can accomplish if simply given the opportunity and the newly formed Crenshaw Middle School Student Council has proven that in the first month of its existence. Two of our 8th-grade teachers, Howard Curry and Rochelle Seibert, began seeking out applicants for our student council back in September. Mr. Curry says his goal in starting the student council was to “help the school overall achieve school pride but help create leaders within the school.” Also, Mrs. Seibert says that they wanted to challenge the students to be servant leaders by accomplishing one service project a month. Students that were interested were asked to submit a formal application. During their first couple of meetings, Mr. Curry and Mrs. Seibert had the students brainstorm different service projects that they would like to undertake. The first service project that was settled on was to have the student council oversee a school-wide canned food drive. The students set a goal of collecting 1,000 cans of food and over a span of a few weeks, they led the campaign to have every homeroom in the building collect canned food and dried goods. The student council organized the effort, sent out daily communications, collected food, and tallied up the amount. After all was said and done the council raised over 3,000 food items, totaling over 1500lbs of food! If that effort alone does not give you hope for our younger generation just read the response below by one of the council members when asked why he wanted to be on the student council: Ayonis Kelley, an eighth-grader said, “I want people to know we take pride in everything we do and we want to change the world little by little…I hope to put smiles on people’s faces. I know sometimes people have bad days and sometimes it will last for very long periods of time, but there is always a tomorrow to improve the rights and the wrongs, and by making them smile they could possibly share it and make it spread and bloom.” Crenshaw Middle School is full of students that take pride in their community and their school. Our student council is leading by example and will continue pursuing to serve the community with future projects. Stay tuned and be on the lookout for more great things to come.

Students in pic from left to right: Pa’Zania Howell, Xochitl Fiesco Guzman, Sumer McClelland, Amya Pritchett, Ayonis Kelley Howard Curry & Rochelle Seibert

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