School Stakeholders?

At the beginning of quarantine my counselor shared a message from our principal. The letter itself was meant to be a update style email where we the students were informed of what was happening. And one of the things that was in the email was how my high school had "redefined [their] mission statement and promise to all stakeholders". Ok, "redefining mission"... "promise" ....this sounds like the right thing to do given the situation. WAIT what??? "Stakeholders"??? What the heck is the word "stakeholders" doing in an email from a public high school? I had no clue that people could invest in local high schools, especially mine! Like yea there's donations and things of sorts, but people who are actually invested in the school? What is there to even invest in (considering the fact that my high school has little to no extracurricular programs, no sports, no prom, no fancy school TV show, etc)? Heck the highlight of my schools' advancements was the fact that we got new desks... Except they weren't desks, they were tables that could seat up to 5 people. Which don't get me wrong, is a huge upgrade from our tiny desks that could only fit a Chromebook and nothing else. But nonetheless, whoever is investing in my school will get to see their hard earned money put to use through tables!!!!

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yay.

The only other thing that I could think of using investors money, on besides more tables for the classrooms, are better laptops. But that would be a waste since we recently got new laptops. It just really makes me wonder where the heck the investors money is being put to use, ya know? It can't be for paying teachers salaries or regular maintenance cost since those are covered by the district. I mean, I would assume there would be a budget that my school is given in order to run things such as supplies, and maintenance. One thing that would be cool is if my school could get higher quality laptops instead of Chromebooks. I mean don't get me wrong, Chromebooks are very practical since they are indestructible and cheap, but having a laptop like the Surface Pro 6 would be awesome.

After a quick search into the Google search engine I was surprised to read that stakeholders can are parents and students (Study). This made everything sooooo much clearer to me, and instantly answered all of my questions. And of course the parents and students would be stakeholders, I mean we are the ones that do have the highest stake in the school. It's just that I've never thought of myself as a stakeholder in a school, it just sounds so technical. Like why not just say "we have redefined our mission statement to the parents and students"? Yes, granted it is more words, but my teachers always say, "the more detailed you are, the stronger the argument". And while the email was not argumentative, it would have been much clearer to just say "parents and students", rather than "stakeholders". I don't like to think of my school as something that I could lose value on. I mean sure if the school did not follow the curriculum and we played games all day then yea I can see how I would be losing value by going to this school, and therefore making it into a bad investment. But this has shown me that maybe my definition of investments have been too narrow. I used to think if you are a stakeholder in something, than that means you have put money towards a company in hopes of making a return on your investment. But looking at it now it does make since that I am a stakeholder in a school because I am, in a way, investing my time (instead of money) into a company (the school) hoping to get a return (which in this case would be an education).