Governing over Controlling needed in student leadership Every school needs student leaders that guide and represent its students. Student leaders are often a part of the school’s Associated Student Body, or ASB: an ASB member is a student elected official who organizes, manages, and implements student activity. As an elected member, an ASB representative has power over other students – essentially, the individual is elevated to a position over the rest of the student body. …showed first 75 words of 617 total…

…showed last 75 words of 617 total…any classmate input. Again, as a controlling student leader, Orme abuses his power and considerers his own aspirations first. As a result of such controlling actions, Orme is not as liked as a student leader, and therefore not as successful. These defining characteristics of a controlling student leader reveal its flaws, as well as magnify the great characteristics of a governing student leader. Therefore, every school not only needs student leaders, but governing student leaders.