At Wednesday's 4th annual San Joaquin County Safe Schools Summit, students were finally able to be part of the conversation around safety that impacts them and over 154,000 students.
"The biggest problem on most campuses across San Joaquin County is that kids feel like they are not heard," Lincoln High School Youth Mental Health Specialist James Robinson shared.
Students like Robinson sat on a panel where law enforcement, safety experts and educators from all 14 districts heard him and his fellow classmates talk about safety on and off campus.
"Oftentimes, as adults, we think we're doing this and we think we're doing that and we think that'll help," San Joaquin County Superintendent of Schools Troy Brown explained. "Then when we hear from students, that feedback is really critical to ma