As students are getting into the swing of things this fall, high-schooler Solyana Mesfin has a very unusual role. She's sitting on Kentucky's board of education and works to bridge conversations between the state's 600,000 public school students and policymakers. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on the importance of student representation.
Kentucky's Commissioner of Education, Jason Glass, says, "Being here and seeing it ourselves has always been a goal. We didn't want to do that right away because we just would have been in the way."
While most Kentucky schools no longer allow the use of physical force, there are still four districts that do permit it and 11 districts with no clear policy.