<p>So, our SGA has alotted $10,000 this year for an “in school project”. As the head of the SGA, I am at a loss for what to propose. What is something that could benefit the entire student body(or a large portion)??? Preferably something that would be a physical thing and not an activity. Ideas???</p>
<p>Our meetings are a total mess when we get talking about this so I’ve created forms which each member will fill out with their ideas and then we will discuss the most popular and take a vote. I would like to propose some “good” ideas when I pass them out to give them an idea of the types of things we’d like. </p>
<p>A group of members are wanting to donate money to the school for teachers to use to purchase supplies which are not provided in the traditional budget… I am opposed to this as I believe that this is student government and the money we raise should be spent on the student body and the community NOT the teachers.</p>
<p>Invite guest speakers, encourage discourse, get a day off of boring regularity to experience what school should really be for: learning, rather than taking tests.</p>
<p>Teacher supplies only if they help the students. Don’t buy an ice cream machine for the teachers. How about a food machine? With healthier food? Or perhaps some music instruments, sports eqiptment and computers? Feed a poor nation? ask kids at your school what they want. Someone must have an opinion. Ask random strangers in your school.</p>
<p>We’ve got band boosters, sports boosters, drama parents(I don’t think they’re called boosters) and these organizations provide much of what those organizations need. </p>
<p>I’ve asked many students and they don’t know… just like I don’t know. When I look at our school we’ve got everything we NEED. </p>
<p>I’m thinking of maybe proposing a set of projectors, a new copy machine, and I like the guest speaker idea.</p>
<p>@averagemathgeek: One of my teachers actually calculated exactly how much it would take to bribe him (taking the cost of his job, loss of teaching certificate, and emotional trauma into account). It worked out to be several hundred thousand dolllars. . . not a bad fee, when you think about it. He was joking, of course, but it did raise a few eyebrows in class.</p>
<p>@anovice: My school recently invested in laptop computer carts. Teachers sign a cart of some 15 Apple iBooks for a period. The carts are prewired for charging (by a single wall plug), internet (via an Apple Airport), and printing (again using the airport). This has been a real boon to the science department. We now use Interactive Physics to do labs quite frequently. It’s far more pratical than going out to the field and shooting up fifteen rockets a few times over. In biology, it is used for the occasional edutainment applied problem. In chemistry, it’s used to gather and process data in real time. Math classes use them to demonstrate the “larger picture” when dealing with fundamental, but abstract, concepts. All in all, I highly recommend such a setup.</p>