Student Councils Exchange Schools For A Day
Connor Strange
Staff Writer
Members of Student Council here at Waverly guided kids from other schools in the Eastern Midland Conference as well as Lincoln High around the WHS building to show them the school’s daily routine on Wednesday, while other members of StuCo went to different schools for the same experience.
The event was dubbed the “StuCo Exchange”, and was intended to showcase the experience at high schools foreign to the student body leaders.
Senior Emily Hoss was one of the members sent out to another district
“I went to Nebraska City, and that opened my eyes to new ideas and findings that we can bring back to our school,” Hoss said.
At the other district, Hoss noticed that there aren’t as many community projects to garner money in comparison to Waverly.
“Nebraska City doesn’t do as much fundraising as we do,” Hoss said. “While we do Penny Wars every year, they only do it once every two or three years.”
The experience at Blair High School was entirely different for junior Christian Dauel, who saw the school he visited as a great example of community involvement.
“It was a good school,” Dauel said. “They were really proud of how their entire school was involved in everything. They tried to include the underclassmen and the sped kids, and it was actually working.”
Not every member of StuCo went to another city’s building, however. Some of them stayed and took on their own tour groups of one or two students throughout the high school.
As always, WHS welcomed the people from the other districts with open arms.
“Other students viewed Waverly as welcoming, and a lot of them were excited to come,” sophomore Zach Tabor said.
The high school building came as a surprise to some of the visitors, considering Waverly’s smaller population.
“For the most part, they were kind of impressed,” sophomore Nick Brown said. “A couple of them even made the comment that it was bigger than they thought it would be. They thought we were a really small school.”
Contrary to the beliefs of some of the other nearby schools, there is quite a lot of positive mojo going on at Waverly.
“At first they judged us based on what they heard in the news, but then they realized how much stuff we actually do,” sophomore Ali Gress said.
StuCo members helped educated students from elsewhere about the fine establishment, and were reciprocated in a similar manner. Overall, the project seemed to be quite a good way to let students know about their neighboring schools.
