By ABBY TYSON

Change is occurring in the high school with the help of the Raider Revolution student members and their teacher counterparts. New forms of promoting the schoolwide rules are attracting attention to the school wide positive behavior club.

The club has big plans this year for changing up the way rewarding and promoting the school’s moral rules will take place. This including different forms of quarterly rewards that have been deemed as successful by the club in the past, such as a modified version of the chili cook-off, an event that allowed chosen students to taste chili entered into a competition for teachers that took place last year. Another break out room has also been discussed by the student team members as being used for a reward. These rewards will be available for students who have been recognized by either staff or student members from the team. Even more so, the club plans to get more involved with the community to help promote the good character of the students in the school.

“Oh my gosh, this year is so exciting. We have so many good plans,” senior Student Coach Cati Besch said. “The quarterly events are all going to be donation-based. We’re going to help local charities or groups and donate things. I think thats a better way to get more people involved with the quarterly rewards.”

With new sources of rewards comes new forms of recognizing students for following the school wide rules. To be able to participate in a quarterly reward, a student must be noted for following the school rules that are promoted by the club.

“I think it’s going to have to be modified from year to year. It’s going to eventually work, but it’s still at its base stages. It needs to be molded into something new,” sophomore Student Coach Austin Melius said.

The rule videos are played periodically throughout the year at Bellefonte Area High School to refresh students on the rules that are being praised. On August 28, the upperclassmen watched their first round of the videos in the high school’s auditorium, while the freshmen watched the same videos on August 30 in the same location. Some videos were older than others, the bathroom video in particular was new to all those not in the club this year.

“The bathroom video specifically, since that’s the only one we filmed this year, really addresses some of the issues that occurred in the bathrooms last year. We tried to make it a little bit humorous but at the same time address those issues,” one of the Raider Revolution and the Friends of Rachel Club advisors as well as Reading Specialist Mrs. Sarah Rodgers said.

As of right now, the club limits its members to only those in tenth through twelfth grade who have been nominated by former teachers. It is still unsure as to whether or not that will change in the future to include incoming freshmen, to have them become more involved in the school and with their classmates. However, no matter the grade of the student, they have all been added to the team because they have a similar goal in mind – to unite fellow students and classmates, strangers and friends, to create a community in Bellefonte.

“We really want to continue to build that sense of community. We want everyone to have care and concern for one another, not just because you go to Bellefonte High School, but because it’s another person and you should have care and concern for people, whether you know them or not. Whether you sit next to them in chemistry class or not,” Mrs. Rodgers said.