Courtesy of Colleen Fields

Standing from the second floor of the Commons, LPAC members help hang red paper links for National Red Ribbon Week. National Red Ribbon Week was created to encourage healthy, drug-free lifestyles.

Lafayette’s Principal’s Advisory Committee is a new organization to boost student voice in school decisions. While LPAC has replaced grade level councils, the senior executive board will stay in place for the rest of this year. Assistant Principal Colleen Fields believes LPAC’s 13-member committee is an improvement from grade-level executive boards.

“[LPAC] helps the administrative team be more mindful about how we are guiding our students,” Fields said. “To me, it’s more holistic as opposed to [dividing up] into just sophomore or just junior [executive boards]. I like the idea of [LPAC] just being about our school and our community, not just our grade.”

A multitude of students applied for positions at LPAC, but only a select few were chosen. 

“We had almost 80 people apply and we were blown away. It was really tough to [choose members] because we can only take three [per grade], we did let seniors have four.” Fields explained. “It was really tough because the people who took the time to fill the [application] out are really good and very thoughtful.”

Senior Josh Lanzotti was one of the few who were selected to join LPAC. Lanzotti applied because he felt a need to gain new skills.

“I want to do [LPAC] because I haven’t had like a lot of leadership opportunities in high school so far and I kind of wanted to fill in that hole, it’s a skill that I haven’t developed yet,” Lanzotti said.

While his first LPAC meeting, which took place Oct. 2, only consisted of introductions and not planning, Lanzotti is ready to make a difference.

“We are going to be talking about more of what stuff we’re gonna change about the school,” Lanzotti said.