Students facilitate dialogue about classroom environment

Panelists look over survey results about stress levels among the student body.
Panelists look over survey results about stress levels among the student body.

Starting Monday and ending Thursday, a student-interest panel met in the 4C Room in the library during Learn to discuss four main topics: mental health, relationships, dealing with conflict and cultural competency, specifically in the context of school.

Panelists explored their different perspectives on these subjects and shared both positive and negative classroom experiences. Members also offered possible solutions for students and teachers to enact in order to create a better learning atmosphere.

“This school is everyone’s school and everyone needs to be involved,” freshman Sergio Barro-Ojeda said. “The decisions we’re making here are going to affect other people.”

The students who participated in these discussions had the opportunity to do so because they opted to leave their information at the end of a survey administered by a group of faculty earlier in the semester.