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Sathvik Nori youngest person elected to District high school board
Among Nori’s priorities is addressing the varied needs of over 10,000 students from Atherton to East Palo Alto.
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Sathvik Nori created history by becoming the youngest individual ever elected to the Sequoia Union High School District board of trustees, according to a Stanford Magazine report. At the young age of 19, he ran for this position shortly after graduating from the district, where he had been a student himself.
Nori, a senior at Menlo-Atherton High School, served as a student trustee on the board during the pandemic, albeit in a nonvoting capacity.
“I saw how a school board operated at one of its toughest moments—you had parents, teachers, and administrators just in complete chaos. Every single meeting would go until 2 a.m.,” he was quoted as saying about his experience during that time.
“It showed me more about how education works at a macro policy level and the power they have in shaping the district,” Nori added. According to him, education governance is unusual, in that “the people who are affected most by the decisions that we make are the students, who have no voice in actually electing the people who represent them. I wanted to [run] because I felt like I could bring that perspective.”
Among Nori’s priorities is addressing the varied needs of some 10,000 students from Atherton to East Palo Alto. “We by no means can solve all the societal problems that might have caused the achievement gap to manifest,” he said, “but we can ensure that every student has a great experience in the four years that we see them, and comes out prepared to do whatever they want to do.”
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