When school had ended and students had gone home on October 16, a group of freshmen stayed behind. The Freshmen Class Council members fueled up on treats before their long afternoon of decorating. They broke into groups and began painting posters with slogans for both Revere spirit and their winter theme. They toiled away over their snowmen, snowflakes and Christmas monkeys. Though they only had a small group of people there, they managed to finish in time to decorate their hallway the next week for the Beat Copley hallway decorating contest.

With the start of the 2025-2026 school year comes a new class of freshmen to bring their ideas and opinions to Revere High School (RHS)’s Freshman Class Council. Now leading that class are Hilah Scherger as president, Frankie Camardo as vice president, Shresta Velma as treasurer and Nehmat Gill as secretary. A grade’s class council members elected these new officers for their desire to create a better experience for the freshman class and for the whole school.

Freshman Class Council is a club that allows current freshmen to participate in their school, and make decisions on things that benefit their peers. They help organize and plan events like the hallway decorating contest or even things as big as prom. It is an important job, especially for the elected officers. This is the first time these freshmen will ever have participated in Student Council (STUCO) at the high school.

“I saw [the] couple of posters around, and I thought it was a good idea to get involved,” Gill said.

With any STUCO leadership position, the president faces responsibility. Some people are deterred by the responsibility that comes with representing a whole class, but not Scherger.

“I’ve thought about becoming class president for years. I prepared in middle school for it. It’s been something I’ve wanted to do since I was in [fifth] grade, so as soon as I saw the opportunity to join [my grade’s] class council, I [just] jumped at it,” Scherger said.

For her, being in the class council was important because of not only the responsibility needed, but also because of the impact she could make within the school.

“Why I wanted to be president was . . . [to] spread kindness, so having an opportunity to get through to people, I like that alot,” Scherger said.

Though the new Freshman Class Council has just begun for the year of 2025-2026, and the officers are only now getting into the flow of work, they have an understanding of what happens in the Freshman Class Council.

”[Our goal is] to try and make the school and Freshmen Class Council the best it could ever be. . . . [I enjoy] listening to everybody’s ideas and just having a lot of fun with them and trying to make our high school better for freshmen,” Camardo said.

This conversation with lots of students is the backbone of STUCO. Everyone has equal opportunities to contribute in Class Council, whether that be through a held office or just participating in the meetings. Anyone can run for an office. The elections took place during a Freshman Class Council meeting and only its members voted.

“We had to write a speech about why we [want to] be a part of this [and] why we want this title,” Scherger said.

These titles mean different things depending on which one title it is. Everyone in class council can participate and add ideas that allow Freshmen Class Council to run; however, the elected offices are leading roles in the class councils. The officers have specific responsibilities that are unique to them that allow the Freshman Class Council to stay organized.

Velma said, “I mostly handle money and planning, . . . [but] everyone [does] everything.”

Freshman Class Council secretary Gill focuses on organization and club activity.

“[My job is to] advocate for our meetings and help keep things [organized],” Gill said.

The class councils organized a hallway decorating contest, which was one of the first official school projects the new officers had the chance to work on.

“[We need to decide] how we’re [going to] set that up, . . . what’s it [going to] look like, what we want and [when] to decorate,” Camardo said.

The class councils run large projects and even smaller projects, like the hallway decorating contest. For the class councils to work, many people need to participate in coming up with ideas and executing their plans.

“All help is needed and welcome,” Camardo said.

As the 2025-2026 school year commences, four new representatives will lead the RHS freshmen class, ready to create a change for their peers.