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The Associated Student Body Executive Board, ASB Exec Board for short, is in charge of leading the ASB class to accomplish the goal of schoolwide events. The Board is composed of six individuals, seniors more often than not, who are voted into their position by the students, staff, and teachers. They are in charge of business involving ASB in and outside of the classroom. These students are here to lead the rest of ASB into achieving a common set of goals that ultimately serve the student body as a whole. The ASB Exec board, in layman's terms, is the staff of the students, which also entitles them to a few stereotypes and misconceptions commonly perceived throughout the student body and even in the ASB class itself. This group, since they have …show more content…

In The Prospect Staff’s online article, 7 Types of Kids You’ll Meet in High School, stereotypes that follow the ASB President alone are discussed, for example, “They know the entire faculty by name, and they’re the favorite of the school administrators.” The stereotypes that follow my title are noble ones, but they have been abused in the past years, which include the ASB President using their relationship with the faculty to ditch, get out of class, and get away with not doing homework. I have learned by trial and error, and watching others fail or succeed throughout the years starting with my Sophomore year, which taught me how I wanted things to be fixed and how i wanted the student’s thoughts of the Board to change. Being in ASB as a student, I watched closely in admiration at the Board, however I began to understand and form a belief in the stereotypes that had followed their titles. Few of the members had been caught not working, and having ASB members do their work instead. Through the years of alternating Board members, I formed the type of change I saw fit for the school. Junior year, I did not get accepted into ASB which gave me a better perception of what the rest of the student body thought of the Exec Board at the time. Senior year comes by and I have been elected ASB President with a goal in my mind of changing the way I saw how the class was …show more content…

ASB faces the problem of individuals not washing brushes or cups, and the Executive Board usually reminds the class to wash them or else the paint will dry and ruin them. This year, in particular, a few Board members have been caught not washing brushes after painting which gives light to the hypocritical title. The belief that the Board is filled with hypocritical dictators instead of leaders is derived from those type of people who do not practice what they preach. To flashback to Sophomore year, about two or three members of the board would stand on the stools and yell at the rest of the class, barking orders, while they sit back down for the rest of the class period. During the video, Stereotypes of ASB, Asha Hill captures the statement, “It’s not really a democracy it’s them coming up with everything themselves.” which gives light to the belief that all ASB Board members are bossy individuals. This year we had an incident with one of our leaders who thought it was okay to order students around while he had arrived late and had barely doing anything. These pieces of evidence gives credibility to the ugly truth of the stereotype that the entire ASB Executive Board is filled with bossy individuals. Laziness is also a common stereotype that derives from

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