High school students now sit on more than a half a dozen local school boards across the state, but legislation being heard in the current session in Annapolis may affect the quality of their vote.Student board of education members say they not only represent the voice of their classmates, but their eyes and the ears as well.Local school boards have been faced with major decisions since the start of the coronavirus pandemic decisions that affect tens of thousands of students but now it s students who sit on those boards who are trying to protect their right to vote. Student board members are concerned about House Bill 629 which would prohibit a student member from being the deciding vote on any matter being decided by a county school board.“I really just think this is an unintended consequence that created some gridlock that we need to get rid of,” Del. Reid Novotny, R-Howard and Carroll counties, said. “This was just the easiest way to make a small change to not take a