Recently, members of student government association at King Middle School successfully presented two resolutions at a district SGA meeting held the capitol building in Tallahassee. The two resolutions pertained making athletic programs available at the middle school level and making high school class credits available in middle school.
On an annual basis, members of the SGA will create resolutions which are presented at a district SGA competition. Members of the SGA, including their sponsor Dee Copeland, traveled to Tallahassee on Dec. 8 in order to compete against other SGA groups.
“We presented in front of the SGA (groups) from Tallahassee to Pensacola,” Copeland said. The SGA students were the only middle school group to compete. Both resolutions were among the seven to receive a favorable pass score to the state level SGA competition. A total of 21 proposed resolutions were presented at the event, in which student had to answer questions about their proposed resolutions.
Angela Shiver, one of the SGA’s secretaries, believes the team performed well against the high school competition.
“We presented a lot better than the other high schools,” Shiver said.
Shiver is familiar with the academic resolution in which she helped present at the event.
“I am working towards getting one of my high school credits right now. I am taking algebra,” Shiver said. “I honestly feel like we could get more (credits).”
Destiny Timmons, a SGA steering committee member who also presented the academic resolution, agrees.
“In the counties in Florida, some (students) can transfer up to four or more credits, but here at King Middle School we can only transfer only two credits into high school,” Timmons said. “We want to make it fair to all of the students of Florida that could transfer the same amount of credits from the same classes to each high school.”
SGA treasurer Christa Durbin is in favor of bringing athletic programs to area middle schools.
“I feel very passionate about it because our problem today is kids are getting into drugs,” Durbin said. “I think sports would help prevent that.”
Fellow SGA member Maria Tejeda agrees.
“I think it helps kids not drop out and keep their grades up,” Tejeda said. “I always wanted to plays sports in my middle school, but I didn’t have a chance to.”
Regardless of how the KMS resolutions compete at the state level SGA meeting, Copeland plans to take both resolutions before the state representative at a January meeting.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: King Middle School SGA successfully promotes resolutions before Florida senate