By Madison Lusignan – Staff Reporter

Jonathan Law High School is coming out with its own Student Congress.

The Student Congress was created to create a forum that allows for more student voices to be heard and for more student ownership of Jonathan Law to be taken. 

”I just want students to have a chance to get their voice heard, because I know there’s only so many members on the student council, and I have all the time in class to hear all the great ideas kids have about stuff,” Student Congress advisor Mr. Zuraw said. ”So I just wanted to give them a formal way to share their ideas and discuss them.”

The Student Congress will allow students to formally propose research and debate ideas they have about current issues or concerns at Law and come up with ideas about how to help fix them. 

Zuraw, who came up with the idea, has high hopes for the Congress, as does Law principal Mr. Thompson.

”I thought it was a wonderful idea, especially since it’s modeled after a social civil model that we use in our own government state and local and of course federal,” said Thompson. “And I think anytime you can have more student voice, the better, so the more voices and input from students the better our school will be so I thought it was a wonderful idea.”

Senior Ru Akhtar is excited to running for the Student Congress at Law and plans on helping out the community.

“I feel like it would be cool to have a voice and be apart of a congress because I think it’s an interesting part of the government, so I think it’s kinda cool that we’re gonna have it here,” Akhtar said.

Junior Shakiah Perry has high hopes for the election and is filled with bright ideas for Law.

“I wanted to run for student congress because I want to make an impact on my class, and I want to have everybody’s ideas heard and I feel like I can really bring that out by being an ambassador,” said Perry, who is running in the election.

Sophomore Aurora Rutkowski, who was one of the first few to turn in their applications for her class, is diving right into this new governmental Congress.  

“Even though I didn’t really think much of it at first and then I had my doubts about it, it still intrigued me. I just want to make Law a better place mainly mostly because of the students,” Rutkowsi said.