By Samantha Puentes, Writer | October 25, 2024
Photo courtesy of Instagram (@carsonhighschool)
The Student Led Conference is an important event that is held every semester at Carson High School. This event provides students with the opportunity to update their parents and guardians on their academic progress. This fall semester’s SLC took place on October 24th, and it was promoted as a valuable opportunity for students to highlight their achievements and reflect on areas that needed improvement.
The SLC is recommended for all students to attend. However, for seniors, it is very important to participate, as participation is a requirement in order to walk the stage in June.
The SLC is designed to encourage students to reflect on their academic journey, share their progress, and discuss their goals.
Mr. Bravo, Dean of Students at CHS, believes in the benefits of SLC.
“It’s a great program. I believe that your portfolio is something you are gonna use in the future: your resume, your cover letters, reference letters, and letters of recommendation,” said Mr. Bravo.
The myriad of benefits are what proponents of SLC say are important.
“More importantly, you're going to gain public speaking experience of presenting a project that you have been working on, that’s real life experience,” said Mr. Bravo.
Despite the benefits, some students find the process to not be worth their time.
Bria Newton, a CHS senior, expressed her frustration by stating, “It’s like a waste of time, even when our parents take time out of their day just for us to go to different classes to explain our grades when I can literally do the same thing at home, so I feel like it’s useless.”
Other students at CHS have mixed feelings about SLC.
Angel Leyva, a CHS freshman, felt that the SLC’s effectiveness depends on the parents’ approach.
“It can and can’t [help]. It just depends what type of parents you have. If they get upset over your grades easily and [are] kind of blindsided by the bad ones [or] if they’re understanding, then maybe they’ll be like ‘okay, you did great on this and just try to improve yourself in this topic,’” said Leyva.
For Leyva and others like him, arguably, the biggest challenge was organizing thoughts and deciding what to include in the provided script.
“Probably, just getting the right words out with writing my script and all. [I wasn’t] sure what I should and shouldn’t say,” said Leyva.
Other students, like Newton, struggled with gathering their materials and organizing their portfolios.
“Basically getting all my work together, all organized and stuff [and] trying to find the right ones,” said Newton.
She also mentioned how difficult it can be when students participate in activities like sports, which may not always have traditional assignments or documents to show.
This fall semester’s SLC wrapped up and the next SLC will be held during the spring semester. For seniors, missing SLC means they face a tough appeal process if they want to be able to participate in graduation. That being said, if you’re a senior that missed SLC, start the appeal process before it’s too late and remember that next semester another one is on the books.
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