Jasmine San Juan stated that her senior year has been the hardest year for her so far due to school shutting down her sophomore year up until the end her Junior year, causing her difficulty in finding motivation to complete her work in school.

“I’d say my senior year is probably one of the most difficult years after the shutting down of school my sophomore year. I found that I had a harder time being motivated to do school. And because of that, my junior year and now my senior year has been a lot harder for me to complete assignments to stay on top of things.”, said Jasmine San Juan.

Jasmine San Juan’s social life on the other hand did not suffer as much do to the pandemic compared to her education.

“Regarding my social life, I’ve been really good although I did lose friends throughout the pandemic, I still was able to keep a lot of friends and we’ve been able to see each other and reconnect.”, says Jasmine San Juan. 

Jasmine San Juan has also taken part in a number of clubs this year and has been really enjoying it, she said her favorite clubs this year are ASB.

“I would say that. I love ASB. I’ve been a part of it since I was in third grade.”, Said Jasmine San Juan.

Jasmine San Juan wants to help students speak up for themselves and loves to connect with people and bring discussion to serious subjects such as sexual assault and sexual harassment, she says this is why she “loves” student government.

“I just really love connecting with people and talking about serious subjects that I feel like everyone should learn about”, states Jasmine San Juan.

“I’ve also just had a great time with clubs my senior year, I am in the most clubs I’ve been in for all four years., and it’s been really good.”

Jasmine San Juanwas the Stop Club vice president during her Junior year, she realized she was “very productive” and wanted to step up this year so that she could do even more.

“I just wanted to just do more and be the face and represent something that’s just so important.”, says Jasmine San Juan, “Not only to me, but to a plethora of people at CK.”

Jasmine San Juan is the face of the Stop Club now however she now faces a struggle of power against the teachers due to her only being a student.

“I constantly want to put out videos, infographics, I want to present to teams, but it’s as if I keep getting shut down.”, said Jasmine San Juan.

Jasmine San Juan wants to provide educational videos on sexual assault, harassment, and misogyny however the school keeps “shutting her down” due to the topics being too “serious.”

“I understand that a lot of the topics we talk about are serious and that they could be triggering to people. However, I feel like it’s just so vital for people to just learn about it.”, says Jasmine San Juan, “But it just that administration tends to stop us from putting anything out there and I think that’s what really sucks.”

Even though Jasmine San Juan is a president of a club at CK, she has the same amount of power a student has outside of her respective club.

“My advisors Mr. Randall and Ms. Rumpke, they are so extremely supportive of me and what I want to do with a club, but my power is extremely limited considering the school affiliated.”, said Jasmine.

Jasmine has thought of doing club related things outside of school so that she wouldn’t be limited by the fact she’s only a student.

“I would love to, but I know that it would that it could negatively reflect back on me as president because despite the fact that it’s not affiliated with the school. It’s if it’s still in relation.”, said Jasmine.

Jasmine knows that if something negative were to come of something Stop Club did outside of school it would all negatively reflect back at her due to her being the face of Stop Club.

“I really do hope that we can do a peaceful protest or even some type of movement that shows the importance of our club, because I feel like it is generally overlooked.”, says Jasmine San Juan.

A peaceful protest was planned earlier in the year however many people didn’t go due to fear of negative backlash and/or being “busy”.

We actually have talked about this with other students that were not a part of the club. However, I feel that these students were probably too busy.”, said Jasmine San Juan.“This really does depend on how administration will see our club because despite how well this is, from a social perspective, considering the PR part of the school, it could it could have a lot of backlash and could be really bad forever negative.”

Jasmine San Juan is worried about how the school could react to such a feat considering that if the actions outside of school have negative backlash the school could shut down the club as a whole. There is another struggle Jasmine San Juan faces as the Stop Club president such as balancing the workload from the club and basic school.

“As president, I’d say that the only struggles would probably be balancing workload as well as time for not only this club, but other clubs.”, Jasmine San Juan says.

The workload Jasmine San Juan experiences is more “draining” rather than “difficult”.

“I feel that this is just it’s not straining, in the sense that it’s difficult but it’s draining in the sense that it is very time consuming.”, said Jasmine San Juan.

Jasmine San Juan stated that another struggle is that she feels Stop club is often invalidated by people and not taken seriously because many people still don’t treat sexual assault as seriously as they should.

“I think the other struggle would probably be getting negative talk about the club, because some people, they still invalidate, like what our club is about. A lot of people don’t think sexual violence is something important or they think it’s too triggering to talk about it schools. They

think that if it doesn’t affect them it’s not important.”, Said Jasmine San Juan. “A lot of people they still like to make jokes about sexual violence and a lot of people they don’t take it seriously. And I think that that’s what’s really hard for me.”

Jasmine San Juan says that many people still make jokes about sexual violence and many don’t take it seriously which makes it difficult to run a club that is advocating against sexual violence due to the clubs voice being blown off by the people who simply do not care enough to do anything about sexual violence.

“there’s a lot of men who will think that misogynistic comments are compliments somehow, and I think that it’s not a compliment, but for some reason a lot of men just can’t process that.”, said Jasmine San Juan. “I’m going to flat out say I think it’s stupid. I think they’re stupid for not educating themselves and for not correcting their behavior is when something is said.”

Jasmine San Juan is working hard in both her personal academic education and in Stop club, educating others on sexual violence to make people more aware of how serious it truly is.