Club Announcement: Spring 2024
Over the last several years, Enviro-club has found it impossible to nurture the eco-advocacy that promotes systemic and institutional change.
For this reason, Enviro-club will no longer be offered in the high school.
JFK supports socio-political initiatives over environmental ones. Though these are often interconnected efforts, the structures at the school treat them as mutually exclusive endeavors - as a result, the club has not been able to maintain regularity nor establish a footprint on campus.
A student's free time is arguably the most precious non-renewable resource - very few students can juggle multiple initiatives that operate in mutually exclusive fashion. Despite making suggestions back in 2020 to reduce this mutually exclusive behavior, student activities continue to operate this way.
Some of the suggestions made back in 2020 include:
Establishing a school newspaper instead of maintaining multiple independent club/activity publications
Establishing a more equitable meeting schedule to rotate student availability and to minimize conflicts between clubs/activities
Establishing and maintaining a school calendar exclusively for school-based clubs and activities
Clubs and activities chose to maintain established routines instead of supporting growth through integration, collaboration, and addressing structural inequities.