Students
Who: You, and the hundreds or thousands of people in your hallways. Everything in the system is supposedly for you, which is why it's weird that nobody asks.
Power: More than you think. You have numbers: a hundred students acting alone are a hundred complaints, but fifty with one shared ask are a movement. You have stories, and the adults making decisions rarely hear them firsthand. You have attendance: in some states, like California and Texas, schools are paid by how many students show up each day, not just how many are enrolled. You have trust, which schools need to run. Many districts have a student member on the school board; they usually can't vote, but they're at the table. And soon, you'll vote.
What they care about: Pretty much everything: sleep, food, phones, grades, fairness, not being treated like a little kid. The trick is picking one thing and getting specific.
How to work with them: Organize before you escalate. Find the students who care about your issue, collect their stories and a little data, and agree on one clear ask. Then take it to whoever actually decides that issue. The power map shows who controls what.