Editor’s Note: Students need better channels of information

By Adam Robak
Editor-in-Chief

This year, La Vista received an unusually low number of submissions to the annual photo contest. The number was so low at first that we had to extend our deadline twice in order to receive a decent amount of participants.

Now, this is not because Mira Costa students were suddenly uninterested in participating in the contest, or because we failed to advertise the event early enough. Rather, we lacked early participants because of a student body that is inadequately informed of campus events.

Currently, Mira Costa teachers are supposed to read the bulletin themselves to their second period class in order to communicate more efficiently and minimize student distraction. However, many teachers simply refuse to read the bulletin, and others fail to communicate it properly, instead having students read it.

This creates an environment where students are left in the dark about important events on campus.

The Principal’s Leadership Council has made it a goal to increase communication among campus organizations. While that is a noble goal and the council is making good progress on meeting it, it is irrelevant if only the organizations are aware of events while few individual students are.

At the same time, the schedule of events on the Mira Costa website is bare and mostly contains a list of concerts and late start days. A more comprehensive list of student events would vastly improve student knowledge of campus events.

However, this lack of communication is not entirely the fault of the Mira Costa administration, as many Mira Costa students are not interested in being involved with the events around them. Being disinterested in Mira Costa events has become almost a culture within itself.

For the administration to make these changes, Mira Costa students need to take some ownership of and responsibility for monitoring when events occur, whether it be on the loudspeaker or on a comprehensive list through the Mira Costa website.

Ultimately, in order to ensure that all students have easy access to a vast store of information, the campus’ communication of student events needs to improve.