Students Honored For Bettering Rocky Hill Schools, Future

A group of l students were honored at the board of education meeting last week for their assistance in getting the $45 million June referendum on the . And at least one administrator believes the organization caused the wide margin in the voting.

Earlier in the year, junior James Wang formed the student activist organization known as the , which worked alongside parent organizations in town to help . Wang said he formed the group because he became worried about the possible effect that the high school going on probation could have on the town.

“Even though this does not affect us, it affects the community,” he previously told Patch. “If we don’t do something now, we are going to have to do something later. And we would rather do something now.”

The Rocky Hill students assisted by standing at the polls, working with the and encouraging 18-year-old students to vote.

"You always presented yourselves in a very positive light and were the 'face' of the students in Rocky Hill," read the letter to each student in the group at the

The board of edcuation and the adminstration expressed their "sincere thanks and gratitude" to the student group's membership during the meeting.

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"For all of this you cannot be thanked enough for all of the time, energy and effort which you devoted to making the positive vote on June 5 to become a reality," Winzler said.

During the meeting, High School Principal Mario Almeida reiterated his in which he thanked the group for getting for helping get the referendum passed.

"I truly believe in the power we possessed," he said. Almeida added that the students "worked as hard" as anyone to help get the referendum passed by and may have been the factor in getting it passed by such a wide margin.

Each student who was not in attendance at the meeting will receive their letter at a later date.

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