Looking back, I have seen quite a few improvements that the school has made. Renovated bathrooms and new seats in the auditorium are welcome and applauded additions. There is always more room to improve, though, and there are a lot more things that can be fixed:

Read the bulletins during homeroom!
If every teacher did this, it would be a big improvement toward student awareness. Of course, this means the students would have to listen. Teachers: quiet your students down and read the announcements to them. The office prints out all these papers so that they can be read. There are a few teachers that do read them, and I applaud that.

Allow announcements during classes.
Obviously, this cannot be abused. But teachers should be flexible enough to adjust their lesson plan if a 30-45 second announcement about something that did not reach the bulletin comes up. That the school’s “Faculty Senate” voted against it is sad – try reading the bulletins in the first place and we wouldn’t have this problem!

Admit less students!
Class sizes will get smaller if the school admits less students. They should at least go back to their normal number of 1600ish. I know the goal is to have more and more people able to go to a great school, but the building has limits. 1775 people is kinda crazy. The building’s not getting any bigger.

School Spirit!
We cannot say that we’re better than BLS if we have less spirit than they do. The teachers and student body need to attend more sports games and support their teams. People that say the school is poor should try to find a way to fix it – join an alumni association after you leave, make an organization that raises money for the school, join the Student Parents Council (I assume they allow parents of students that already graduated and alumni). If we’re supposed to be academically inclined, I think we’ve reached that goal already. Let’s try working on the spirit side.

Student Forum (SF) needs to be more active.
Here, we have another example of a great concept, but bad application. Either it is a poorly credited body (as in, they do influence school decisions [I'm sure they influenced the rotating schedule thing] but they don’t get credit for it) or they do almost nothing to help the school. I was once talking to Mrs. Aaronson and she randomly told me that she wished for SF to have a more active role. I hope Dr. Properzio pushes his presidents a little harder in the future.

There’s some ideas. Some people will probably say that since I’m Senior Class President, I should have worked on things like this. I say, in defense, that this is more the job of Student Forum. I should have at least brought up things like this to them, though. Something tells me SF hasn’t done much this year, though. They sold a shirt, but how much did they make off that, and to what end are they raising money? It’s weird.