Bethesda-Chevy Chase Student Picked For Board Of Education

A Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School student will be on the county's Board of Education. Sophomore Eric Guerci was elected Wednesday as the next Student Member of the Board of Education, or SMOB. Guerci got 52 percent of votes from MCPS secondary school students. His opponent, Richard Montgomery High School junior Rachit Agarwal, got 48 percent of the votes. As the SMOB, Guerci can vote on many items, though not boundary changes, the capital and operating budgets, teachers' contracts, school closings and what MCPS referred to in a press release as "negative personnel matters." His predecessor, Clarksburg High School senior Dahlia Huh, did vote on key changes including the Board's decision to move middle school and high school start times back by 20 minutes. Guerci has been active in student government organizations and will start his one-year term on the Board on July 1.