LTHS Student Representative Selected

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL — Lyons Township High School’s Margaret Meehan, Class of 2021 of Western Springs, was named the 2020-2021 Student Representative to the Board of Education. She starts her one-year term in August.

Meehan says, “My goal as a student representative to the school board is to provide the school board with an honest representation of the student experience at LT with input from various perspectives.”

She is a varsity swimmer and a member of Relay for Life and Spanish Honor Society. She was recently inducted into the Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society and National Honor Society. Outside of LT, she has been a competitive swimmer for 10 years and actively involved in her church and was selected as a member of Young Community Changemakers, a philanthropy group for high schoolers run by Community Memorial Foundations. She is also a volunteer at the Thomas Ford Memorial Library.

The Student Representative to the Board was created more than 20 years ago and was designed to improve and increase student participation and presence in school operations. The position requires the liaison to have a broad view of the school and all aspects of the LTHS experience.

As student representative, Meehan will have the dual responsibility of reporting to the Board of Education as well as to the students who she represents. She will be required to:

• Attend all full Board meetings, serving as an advisory, non-voting member. She will be excluded from closed session discussion, as well as committee participation, unless otherwise directed.
• Prepare and present a report for the Board on behalf of the student body.
• Meet with the Superintendent prior to each Board meeting in preparation for items to be discussed.
• Serve as a liaison to Student Council and prepare and present a report for the Council on behalf of the Board of Education.