The Lampasas High School Facebook page, run by assistant principal Kristin Montague during school hours, has kept people informed of what students are doing throughout the day. Along with the Facebook page, there is talk of an LHS Instagram page being created.
“The Facebook page became more active this year in order to better inform students, families and community members of all of the wonderful things that are happening at LHS,” Montague said.
Montague said the Facebook page is a simple way to communicate with parents and community members.
“The age has changed and more and more people are using social media to communicate,” Montague said.
Montague has plans to create a Lampasas High School Instagram page to inform students, as more kids use Instagram instead of Facebook.
“I think having a school Instagram page would be extremely beneficial for keeping us up to date, especially with having the new phone ban in effect,” senior Giselle Ruperto said. “Especially since Instagram is such a popular social platform for teens and mostly everyone uses it. Personally, for me, I always check my socials first thing in the morning to start my day.”
Montague will continue to post more pictures of students in action at school.
“In one of the FCCLA classes, they were making pancakes, and I got a picture of that,” Montague said. “Then, out in the auto shop, they were working on weed eaters. I’m hoping the page is more student focused.”
If students have any pictures or information they would like to share, they can contact Montague at [email protected].
“If it’s something that I want to share, or I feel that would be good for our community to share, I can do that,” Montague said. “Different clubs and organizations can send me stuff to promote.”
Feedback for the page has been positive, amassing likes from students, staff and parents.
“I think that it’s a great idea now that it’s a bit harder to document our senior year ourselves,” Ruperto said. “Parents would also have easier access to more news about how their child’s last year of high school is going, since I know that my parents are more active on Facebook personally.”
