Alnifaidya has also gone back on statements made in a June 11, 2002 interview with The Prowler.

"By visiting schools, [I plan to increase student participation]," he said in the interview. "I know you hear from candidates that are running for the Student Member of the Board position that they will visit every single school, but after they win you never see their face again. I am definitely going to make a strong effort in visiting schools."

However, Alnifaidya can now include himself among the prior SMOBs he criticized in June.

"I haven't organized anything with the SGA's because they are supposed to come to all the MCR meetings, but not all the SGA representatives come," Alnifaidya said in a February 2003 interview with The Prowler.

Alnifaidya feels that the lack of student voice has made it a challenge to represent the views of MCPS students.

"I want to express the opinions of all the students of Montgomery County in front of the board," Alnifaidya said in February. "But I can't [express these opinions] because nobody bothers to tell me what they think should be improved."

However, part of the reason Alnifaidya does not know the opinions of MCPS students could be related to the fact that he has only visited approximately five of the 23 county high schools.

QO is one of the schools that still has not been visited by the SMOB, contradictory to his statement last June that QO students "can expect me to visit a lot…because I know they have a lot of issues…. [I want to] hear their input [and] talk to students by walking around and meeting people, not just going to SGA meetings."

"I think that he [Alnifaidya] was mainly relying on the MCR meetings to get the opinions of all the students," SGA President Kevin Rosenbaum says. "It would be nice if he went to all the schools and visited the students, but it's not easy."