Principal’s Advisory Committee, otherwise known as PAC started in 2013 with former principal Mr. Timothy Dadich. PAC was created to have students come together and try to come up with ideas to better the environment here at Freedom Area High School.

PAC strives to find better ways to make the high school a place that the students feel welcomed and comfortable in, whether that be with teachers, new signs, changes around the school or even sometimes the community, if needed.

“The way I have explained PAC to students [and the staff] that are interested in it, I see PAC as kind of a panel of advisors,” Principal Mr. William Deal said.

This year, PAC wants to take a new direction in focus. PAC’s purpose was to fix what we as students thought were broken. Each year, PAC has held many meetings in order to discuss and decide how the school as a whole could help fix the problems that had been brought to them. For the past two years, PAC had taken the student handbook and tried to fix certain things for the better of the school and students.

PAC has become a group where students can share their opinions on the direction they think the school should take for the better. It’s a way for the principal to be able to sit down and speak with anyone passionate about their school, and ideas to make it better in their eyes.

“Last year, [PAC] was a little more focused on how the school functioned and what [Dadich] felt needed fixed, whereas this year with [Deal] I feel it is more student focused,” Junior R.J. Schlegel said.

PAC was responsible for the eight learning core signs that are in the classrooms, and they were also working on a yearlong project last year that focused on what qualities made a great teacher.

“As I think about doing things or changing things or the direction I want to take with the school, PAC is kind of like the sounding board for that,” Deal said.

PAC is a place for students to voice their opinion and try and accomplish the tasks they would like to see the school achieve.

PAC has a few more focuses this year that are different from last. Technology is one of those focuses from the mix.

“Our main focus for this year is finding better technology for us as students,” Schlegel said.

PAC has decided upon the iPads that the school now provides, they are also working on bringing in more up-to-date technology for the students use.

PAC meets regularly and is always open to new students that would like to attend to get their voice heard.

“When you hear that PAC is having a meeting during AAP, it is not exclusive; it is absolutely open to anyone who would like to attend, and we encourage more students,” Deal said.