Student elections or popularity contest
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Opinion
By Manuel Leon
Every year Granite Hills holds its annual election of student officers.
Most of us do not even know what the students elected will be expected to do. I find it extremely difficult to acknowledge this as a title or merely some pointless popularity contest.
Every year, there are students who run for the offices of class president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer for every grade level. Quite often it is the brightest students of the school that run for these offices. In a way it is the A-list students, the popular kids, the jocks, the typically well-known students around campus.
What strikes me as ridiculous is the fact that some of the students who win these offices have no idea what they are actually expected to do.
“I don’t know [what is expected], I just have the title!” said sophomore class president, Jed Hackett.
Seriously! Are you kidding me? What is the point of running for a student office if even the students that ran for an office do not know what they are doing?
The “campaigning” portion of the student elections is a very simple process for some, if not all of the students, who ran. The whole process consists of putting up posters, asking students for their votes, and sometimes handing out stickers or buttons.
There are no speeches and no information given to the student body about any of the students that run. For one entire school week, all anyone knew about those running were their names and nothing else.
To my surprise, senior class president, Madison Rice, actually knows some of what will be expected in the near future.
“I suggest ideas to the rest of the council, along with the other officers,” said Rice.
She does not know what all of her duties are, but it definitely gives me some hope about the students that were elected.Someday, most of us will vote at one point in our lives. It is important that our generation knows who they are voting for and what they stand for. Even if they are not given information about the candidates, they should seek out this important knowledge. It is critical for all of us to be informed citizens.
If the students were more informed about the candidates who are running for office, I am sure the elections would have turned out differently and not just some popularity contest.
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jasmine
Posted at 2012-10-05 16:14:16
I think that before students run and are elected they should be told what is expected of them and their role of an officer. It should be more then just a popularity contest.
jasmine
Posted at 2012-10-05 16:14:16
I think that before students run and are elected they should be told what is expected of them and their role of an officer. It should be more then just a popularity contest.
Posted at 2012-10-02 17:06:53
I think is definetly true. To me all class elections are mostly just a popularity contest where they do nothing else afterwords. No offensive to the officers though I am just asking do you even know what you supposed to be doing. If we do real elections then i sure things will begin to improve
Posted at 2012-10-02 17:06:53
I think is definetly true. To me all class elections are mostly just a popularity contest where they do nothing else afterwords. No offensive to the officers though I am just asking do you even know what you supposed to be doing. If we do real elections then i sure things will begin to improve
Posted at 2012-10-02 17:06:53
I think is definetly true. To me all class elections are mostly just a popularity contest where they do nothing else afterwords. No offensive to the officers though I am just asking do you even know what you supposed to be doing. If we do real elections then i sure things will begin to improve
Deanna Serrano
Posted at 2012-10-01 19:23:42
I think this is so true. I have asked people who have been elected as officers what is it that they have to do and they do not know. i think that people have to be more involved in these types of things and get to know the candidates more, maybe by having them give a speech before the elections so that the student body could know them better and know why they should vote for them and not just give them a title. maybe this way it would be an actual student election and not just a popularity contest.
jasmine
Posted at 2012-10-05 16:14:16
I think that before students run and are elected they should be told what is expected of them and their role of an officer. It should be more then just a popularity contest.
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