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Elizabeth "Libby" Boerger
Elizabeth Ann Boerger is the youngest nominee to date. She is currently 17 years old, living in South Carolina. "Libby" is no stranger to politics even at her tender age. She is a passionate, optimistic, and driven individual. Miss Boerger has already testified
before a House Sub-Committee on a Bill #H3499, regarding nutrition and fitness among children, which she struggled to have passed. Ms. Boerger has worked tirelessly with Congressmen and her Governor on issues concerning children's health. She is a
talented dancer who has won many awards, including a National Championship. Libby focuses on raising the awareness of the importance of good nutrition and physical fitness among children and teens. She promotes nutritional education and the benefits of
living a healthy life style, that she hopes will improve the overall health not only in South Carolina, but the world. Miss Boerger currents publishes brochures and answers questions regarding healthy living. She is also pushing to require recess in schools. Miss
Boerger also provides "Live Healthy" bracelets, green in color, and uses them to raise money for the Diabetes and Heart Associations one dollar at a time . She also writes the Health column in the weekly newspaper. It would mean more to her than anything if
she just taught at least one child to live healthy and have a longer and better quality of life.
Elizabeth Ann Boerger is the youngest nominee to date. She is currently 17 years old, living in South Carolina. "Libby" is no stranger to politics even at her tender age. She is a passionate, optimistic, and driven individual. Miss Boerger has already testified
before a House Sub-Committee on a Bill #H3499, regarding nutrition and fitness among children, which she struggled to have passed. Ms. Boerger has worked tirelessly with Congressmen and her Governor on issues concerning children's health. She is a
talented dancer who has won many awards, including a National Championship. Libby focuses on raising the awareness of the importance of good nutrition and physical fitness among children and teens. She promotes nutritional education and the benefits of
living a healthy life style, that she hopes will improve the overall health not only in South Carolina, but the world. Miss Boerger currents publishes brochures and answers questions regarding healthy living. She is also pushing to require recess in schools. Miss
Boerger also provides "Live Healthy" bracelets, green in color, and uses them to raise money for the Diabetes and Heart Associations one dollar at a time . She also writes the Health column in the weekly newspaper. It would mean more to her than anything if
she just taught at least one child to live healthy and have a longer and better quality of life.
Press Clips
Rex Gets Input from Students on Improving Schools
By Robert Kittle, SCNow.com
July 20, 2007
State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex didn't hear from lawmakers or even parents Thursday about how to improve our schools. Instead, he taped at SC ETV a forum with
high school students so they could tell him what they like, and don't like, about our schools.
"When we talk about the issues related to reforming education, improving education, I'm afraid I'm guilty, and maybe all of us are as adults, of not asking the students who are
being impacted by it on a daily basis what they think about some of these issues," Rex said before the taping.
The students were all participants in Boys' State or Girls' State, which means they're all good students who are leaders in their schools.
Libby Boerger, a rising senior at Wren High in Piedmont, told the superintendent she thinks recess should be mandatory every day. She's been working with state Sen. David
Thomas, R- Fountain Inn, to draft a bill to require that.
"Since we've been seeing such a big increase in childhood obesity and the unhealthiness in children, we need recess, we need P.E. and we need some health classes so kids can
understand what to do to live healthy, so they know what foods to eat," she says.
Chase Pate, from Seneca High, says he thinks the biggest problem in our schools is too much standardized testing. He wants to eliminate the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test,
or PACT.
"You go and you take the test and you don't get your scores back for a long time," he says. Rex has made the same complaint, and has plans to make major changes to the PACT.
He listened carefully to the students' ideas.
"If they're brand-new ones, I'll take them back with me and see if we can do something with them. If they reinforce the things we're already doing, that'll of course energize me a
little bit, maybe other people also. If they disagree, that goes into the new category: I'll have to re-think it," he says.
Rex Gets Input from Students on Improving Schools
By Robert Kittle, SCNow.com
July 20, 2007
State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex didn't hear from lawmakers or even parents Thursday about how to improve our schools. Instead, he taped at SC ETV a forum with
high school students so they could tell him what they like, and don't like, about our schools.
"When we talk about the issues related to reforming education, improving education, I'm afraid I'm guilty, and maybe all of us are as adults, of not asking the students who are
being impacted by it on a daily basis what they think about some of these issues," Rex said before the taping.
The students were all participants in Boys' State or Girls' State, which means they're all good students who are leaders in their schools.
Libby Boerger, a rising senior at Wren High in Piedmont, told the superintendent she thinks recess should be mandatory every day. She's been working with state Sen. David
Thomas, R- Fountain Inn, to draft a bill to require that.
"Since we've been seeing such a big increase in childhood obesity and the unhealthiness in children, we need recess, we need P.E. and we need some health classes so kids can
understand what to do to live healthy, so they know what foods to eat," she says.
Chase Pate, from Seneca High, says he thinks the biggest problem in our schools is too much standardized testing. He wants to eliminate the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test,
or PACT.
"You go and you take the test and you don't get your scores back for a long time," he says. Rex has made the same complaint, and has plans to make major changes to the PACT.
He listened carefully to the students' ideas.
"If they're brand-new ones, I'll take them back with me and see if we can do something with them. If they reinforce the things we're already doing, that'll of course energize me a
little bit, maybe other people also. If they disagree, that goes into the new category: I'll have to re-think it," he says.
