The Latest Ineffective Student Representatives:
Lyn Ampey and
Isaiah Martin
The MPS Board of Education first appointed a
student representative in 2015, then in 2022 added a second representative
with the stated goal of expanding student opportunity for expressing student
viewpoints. Current student representatives Lyn Ampey and Isaih Martin take
turns being the primary speaker at Board meetings and meet regularly with board
staff to prepare for meetings and coordinate other duties.
Lyn Ampey
Lyn Ampey
Student.Representative@mpsedu.org
Term:
February 2025-December 2025
Lyn Ampey is a junior at Southwest High School, where she Lyn started a club pertinent
to medical careers. At Southwest, Ampey
is a member of National Honor Society, the Black Student Union, the school Site
Council.
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The Student Representatives provide an
important perspective and give voice to those at the heart of the district’s
work: MPS students. The Board of Education has appointed a student
representative since 2015, and beginning in 2022, the addition of a second
student representative was made with the goal of expanding student view and
opinion.
Ampey, along with the other 2024 student
representative, Isiah Martin, will take turns being the primary speaker at
Board meetings but will still be responsible for keeping up on what's happening
by reviewing materials and watching meeting videos when not in attendance.
Additionally, the two will meet regularly together with board staff to prepare
for meetings and coordinate other duties.
Isaiah Martin
Isaiah Martin
Student.Representative@mpsedu.org
Term:
February 2025-December 2025
Isiah Martin is a junior at Camden High School, where he is part of organizations
including Camden Beacons Leadership Team (BLT), Good Trouble, and Student
Council. He has been part of the “Change
the Name” movement that replaced the name Patrick Henry with Camden, and is
working to develop a new mascot. Martin
is a Teen Tech agent at a Hennepin County Library and has given testimony on public
school issues at the Minnesota State Capitol.
Gary Marvin
Davison Critique of Lyn Ampey and Isaiah Martin as Student Representatives on the
Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education
Student representatives are chronically
ineffective, and these representatives are no exception.
Lyn Ampey’s attendance in erratic and her
comments spare in the extreme.
Martin is more voluble, but his comments,
while usually pertinent to the topic under consideration do not go to the core
vexations of the Minneapolis Public Schools and other iterations of the locally
centralized school district as to curriculum and teacher quality.
These young people gain experience in civic
participation by serving as student representatives, but they make no
substantive difference via that participation.
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