The Harford County School Superintendent’s Student Advisory Committee met for a second time Thursday to determine the topics it will focus on the remainder of the 2009-10 school year.

Sixteen students from 15 middle and high schools around the county gathered around a table with Superintendent Robert Tomback to prioritize the topics they wish to address.

“The most important thing that a group does is define its mission,” Tomback said.

First, as a group, the students created lists of their first and second priorities.

Between those two lists, the committee then came to a consensus on what it would like to discuss in detail and explore during its future meetings with the superintendent.

“We need to collectively come to a consensus of topics you want to discuss,” Tomback said. “We are setting the tasks this group will address.”

Hot button topics the students are interested in include environmental education, student involvement, interdisciplinary instruction, extended lunch periods and graduation requirements.

The committee will meet with the superintendent three more times this school year.

The first Student Advisory Committee meeting occurred before the Jan. 25 school board meeting and allowed the students to introduce themselves and get to know each other.

The 16 students on the committee were selected from among 79 applicants by a group of five staff members and the superintendent. Each middle and high school in the county has at least one student representative except for Bel Air High, Joppatowne High, Havre de Grace Middle, Southampton Middle and Magnolia Middle.

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