Student Council (be prepared for major ranting ^^)

[Katana]

Note: Keep in mind that I am only in 7th grade and 12 years old, so I don't know that much about the subject, just really looking for some answers.
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My school is in "the heat" of electing the people for student council, such as representatives for every team (2, 3, or 4 teachers teaching the same circulation of students), president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary. I have never run as a representative (and never will), but next year I plan on going out for treasurer. (Oh yeah, forgot to say, only eighth graders can have those mightly seats of power).
I view this time of the year as a popularity contest. I know of tons of preps going out for representatives who aren't even qualified to do so. You know, those b****** who wear those low rise, tight fitting, bleached jeans with skimpy shirts and so on. I know of two people who are my friends and are going out, and I know they'll do a good job because of what they've done.
Today at lunch, I had a person come up to the table me and my friends were sitting at, going "vote for Kirby" ('nother rep for our team) and I asked why.
No response.
So mainly, people are just going out for the hell of it and they don't know a single thing of what to do. I find it highly annoyed. Also, what is the big freakin' deal about dances? If you're like me, and see signs hanging in every place imaginable saying "vote for blah blah for prez" ([i]that's[/i] getting annyoing too), and it's a girl, most likely you'll find the text, somewhere, saying "I'll work hard to get you more dances". AND WHO GIVES?!! They said it last year and it never happened.
I'm more interested in fun stuff. You know, like those funky days where you can wear your pajamas and so on. I also think it would be really cool to get some more, differnt clubs going, not just the same old ones. I'd find it REALLY fun if we had an anime/manga club. I know of ten people who would just automaticlly join.
Or art clubs. We never have those. I mean, if we can have clubs about Math and History, then why not about art? Art is a dying thing, so why let it die?

Whew, that's the end of my ranting.

I want to run for treaserer. I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions, comments, tips, etc. for such things. You know, like how far I shoud dip into the account and such.

Thanks for listeining to my ranting, and if you found anything offensive, then sorry, but this is the way I operate. ^^

[Kieko]

Well, you could make promises you don't intend to keep. Or you could just say basicly what you said now; why you want this job. (Unless you want this job becuase you want to sneak free money, then don't say why you want this job).

[Guest Azure_Skies]

I hated Voting time so much in my high School! Everyone is so like "Vote ------- Because I blah blah blah..... I mean does the student council even do a thing? At our school The principle is theoverloard of our scchool and it blows!


"Note Me and Dead-Angel are in the same school"

[The Original]

Those kind of things happen at my school sometimes; changes rarely happen. But there are a few exceptions. Two years ago the S.C. President got us ten more minutes of lunch. It's not much, but I still like it. Hell, the Principal mighta jus' been givin' us the illusion of power. :D Anyone see the movie "Election"? I think it pretty much covers High School elections...lol.

[Harry]

student council doesn't matter until high school. Unless your school is drastically different from mine, the junior high student council doesn't do anything ever.

[craig8429]

Personally school ingeneral is a popularity contest, best thing to do is offer what you can do be fair, and show your a good worker.

[Brasil]

First and foremost, Harry...love the avatar. Great stuff.

Now,

Student government...my suggestion is, run for the hell of it. Mess with the students' heads. When they ask you why they should vote for you, say this:

"Well, I'm a Communist, and I think Socialism totally rocks. If I am elected, I'm going to bring a totally equal society to our school. Nobody will be better than anybody, and those preps running there won't be allowed to run.

I like puppy dogs, and if I'm elected, I'm going to create a Puppy Dog Day.

I'd also start up a club dedicated to the destruction of racial barriers, and another club dedicated to evil, and another club dedicated to destroying the first two clubs. Those three clubs would have deathmatches at the beginning of each week, to decide who would get to post propaganda that week.

I would start a Fight Club. The Principal is behind me on this, I assure you. He thought of it first, too. He's totally eager to do this. He says there are a few students that he'd like to beat the living piss out of. So, I'd definitely want to start a Fight Club.

I'd make the first Friday of each month a Drinking Friday. There would be a party in the cafeteria with spiked punch and everything. I can get my older brothers to buy the alcohol, though the teachers won't mind; they're alcoholics and drunks anyway.

If I am elected, I vow to give everyone a free condom each day, so that they can do the nasty in the bathroom without worry of pregnancy.

The most important reason you should vote for me? I'm power hungry...and hungry for sex!"

That will get you elected. If you need any more speeches written, PM me. lol.

[craig8429]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by PoisonTongue [/i]
[B]First and foremost, Harry...love the avatar. Great stuff.

Now,

Student government...my suggestion is, run for the hell of it. Mess with the students' heads. When they ask you why they should vote for you, say this:

"Well, I'm a Communist, and I think Socialism totally rocks. If I am elected, I'm going to bring a totally equal society to our school. Nobody will be better than anybody, and those preps running there won't be allowed to run.

I like puppy dogs, and if I'm elected, I'm going to create a Puppy Dog Day.

I'd also start up a club dedicated to the destruction of racial barriers, and another club dedicated to evil, and another club dedicated to destroying the first two clubs. Those three clubs would have deathmatches at the beginning of each week, to decide who would get to post propaganda that week.

I would start a Fight Club. The Principal is behind me on this, I assure you. He thought of it first, too. He's totally eager to do this. He says there are a few students that he'd like to beat the living piss out of. So, I'd definitely want to start a Fight Club.

I'd make the first Friday of each month a Drinking Friday. There would be a party in the cafeteria with spiked punch and everything. I can get my older brothers to buy the alcohol, though the teachers won't mind; they're alcoholics and drunks anyway.

If I am elected, I vow to give everyone a free condom each day, so that they can do the nasty in the bathroom without worry of pregnancy.

The most important reason you should vote for me? I'm power hungry...and hungry for sex!"

That will get you elected. If you need any more speeches written, PM me. lol. [/B][/QUOTE]

Dear God Posion! your my hero!

but I still think that you should just try making a diffrence act like you can get more dances.......because thats what they want to hear


Politics are cruel and always misleading, we never actually see all the things people want but hey atleast we get to hear what we want.

[eleanor]

[size=1] It's just a popularity contest in middle school.[/size]

[stardust]

lmao,no what happened at my school? We got names of candidates,no speechs or anything, circled who we wanted,turned em in and that was it. It was basically a popularity contest,but hey,all of high school is a popularity contest. No matter what you tell them if you're not that popular and someone is running who is you're probably not gonna get picked. It sucks,but hey,that's life...

[Harry]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by stardust [/i]
[B] It was basically a popularity contest, [/B][/QUOTE]
Well duh. Do you really think any self-respecting adult will willingly let students run a school? Let alone make important decisions?

[Brasil]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by stardust [/i]
[B]lmao,no what happened at my school? We got names of candidates,no speechs or anything, circled who we wanted,turned em in and that was it. It was basically a popularity contest,but hey,all of high school is a popularity contest. No matter what you tell them if you're not that popular and someone is running who is you're probably not gonna get picked. It sucks,but hey,that's life... [/B][/QUOTE]

Precisely why you shouldn't care, and if you do run for anything, be sure to freak them out. Don't run to win. Run to totally **** up the school's social order.

Trust me on this. People get really weirded out when you say you're a Marxist Pythonian, or Socialist, or Communist, or Marxist, or Cuban, or Royalist, and even say you're from Tralfamadore...that gets people agitated.

Tralfamadore, in case you don't know, is an alien planet some 4,000,000 lightyears away, created by Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Slaughterhouse Five. Excellent book. Highly recommend it.

But, considering you won't win if you run, don't worry about winning. Just have fun during the electoral process (I think it's "electoral").

[Maully]

[color=green]PT and Harry are right, you're not going to make a difference there even if you are elected, so just k=make fun of others and have fun. PT is also right about Slughterhouse Five.

If you want to make a difference, join the paper, and take it seriously. A kid in a high school a town or two over from mine found out that the Superintendant (oh god, that's spelled so wrong) of schools had embezzled half a million over his tenure. He printed it in the school paper... Stories of it ran nation wide, sure, page 12 or 16 in places, but there you go. He made a differrence, at least for a few weeks.

StuCo does nothing but think up stupid themes for dances and what to put in your vending machines, let the preps have it if they want it.[/color]

[Heaven's Cloud]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by PoisonTongue [/i]
[B]Precisely why you shouldn't care, and if you do run for anything, be sure to freak them out. Don't run to win. Run to totally **** up the school's social order.

Trust me on this. People get really weirded out when you say you're a Marxist Pythonian, or Socialist, or Communist, or Marxist, or Cuban, or Royalist, and even say you're from Tralfamadore...that gets people agitated.

Tralfamadore, in case you don't know, is an alien planet some 4,000,000 lightyears away, created by Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Slaughterhouse Five. Excellent book. Highly recommend it.

But, considering you won't win if you run, don't worry about winning. Just have fun during the electoral process (I think it's "electoral"). [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=indigo]You know what would be really incredible, if you were to campaign on the principle that the whole election is a farce and that you were already vested with the authority of ?Supreme Dictator? by an elite group of intellectuals that have the best of intentions for the school in mind. That way, regardless of whether you win or lose the election, you can attend the student council meetings under the title ?Supreme Dictator of Mrs. Hurley?s (I took the liberty of inventing your teachers name) Eighth Grade Class?.

Edit?If teachers or administrators attempt to halt your infiltration of the student council adamantly insist that it is student ?government?, and since only one form of government is represented you thought that by diversifying you were broadening the learning process? [/color]

[eleanor]

[size=1] Well, in my school, Student Council should be re-named as Teacher-Controlling-Students-to-Obey-Every-Whim. Student Council has absolutely NO power at my middle school. The only group that can really do anything is Jr. Beta, which is a club for nerds who think learning is fun and which is the club I'm a member of. :toothy:

I was hoping that when I reach Senior year in high school, people would pick presidents according to their standards. *faints*[/size]

[Brasil]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Heaven's Cloud [/i]
[B][color=indigo]You know what would be really incredible, if you were to campaign on the principle that the whole election is a farce and that you were already vested with the authority of ?Supreme Dictator? by an elite group of intellectuals that have the best of intentions for the school in mind. That way, regardless of whether you win or lose the election, you can attend the student council meetings under the title ?Supreme Dictator of Mrs. Hurley?s (I took the liberty of inventing your teachers name) Eighth Grade Class?.

Edit?If teachers or administrators attempt to halt your infiltration of the student council adamantly insist that it is student ?government?, and since only one form of government is represented you thought that by diversifying you were broadening the learning process? [/color] [/B][/QUOTE]

Even better. Accuse the other candidates of taking bribes from the school admins. Start your own Monica-Gate. Kiss the women, shake hands with the babies.

Turn the electoral process into a circus...literally. Get a guy in a bearsuit to balance on a little red ball. Get some clowns to advertise. Scantily-clad contortionists will get votes, especially male votes. Be sure to get lesbian contortionists, too. Then promise the male voters that if you're elected, each male will get two lesbian contortionists.

[Heaven's Cloud]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by PoisonTongue [/i]
[B]Even better. Accuse the other candidates of taking bribes from the school admins. Start your own Monica-Gate. Kiss the women, shake hands with the babies.

Turn the electoral process into a circus...literally. Get a guy in a bearsuit to balance on a little red ball. Get some clowns to advertise. Scantily-clad contortionists will get votes, especially male votes. Be sure to get lesbian contortionists, too. Then promise the male voters that if you're elected, each male will get two lesbian contortionists. [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=indigo]I like it, I like it. Just make sure to by yourself a top hat and tails and insist that all the other candidates refer to you as Barnabus, the Ringmaster.

...you may also want to trim the bears claws before you bring them to school, they tend to be sharp.[/color]

[Trigun 11]

In my school it's really a popularity contest. But I Have to say they do get things done. Molleta would the school superintendent be from haysville?

[thethespian]

Just to let ya know, Student Council isn't all that great, i was on it once and we NEVER got anything done. Sure, we talked about stuff but really we didn't do anything. The principal did everything and none of the adult staff really listened to our ideas anyway. it really sucked. Now your school might be different than mine but still you have to consider all the responsibility and the pressure of doing it. All the extra things to be done, parties you have to miss, and all that kinda stuff. First ask yourself right now, are you sure you want to do this?

[Katana]

^^ I loved all the ideas, Poison Tongue. Absolutly fantastic. :D
I had some anime-stricken ideas, such as putting up posters with Vash eating donuts and stuff. I think I'm gonna try the communist thing. Sounds most reliabe. *takes out notebook and scribbles under "Ideas for Treaserer Position", "say you're a comunist"*
I think that my student council actually gets things done. There's only one adult (one of my old sixth grade teachers) and that's it. She's really nice, so yeah, I think it would work.
But anyways, thanks to everyone for ideas. ^^ Especially you, PT.

[Kanariya]

Oh my student council election is over already. I knew no one except this really annoying 7th grader and a 6th grader like me. The 6th grader is annoying too, he won't SHUT UPPPP!!!!!! :angry2:
And same thing, the posters they are putting "Vote for me because BLAH BLAH BLAH school dances..." you get the point. I randomly picked someone for the heck of it. One girl put the Simpsons up on her posters.
In my middle school, our announcements is on TV. (hee hee) And the people running for council would be on the television, and the 6th grader said some whacky line which made us all in my class crack each other up. But everyone in my school are PREPS!!! And now my best friend is trying to be GOTH!!! What's gonna happen next?!Well since I don't run, I really don't have any advice about it, except do whatever you think is great. Of course the people in my middle school won't look at anime posters, they'll look at 50 Cent or Little Bow Wow posters and vote for you because of that! Good luck!

[thethespian]

Yeah, i guess Student council could get things done, cuz schools are different and my school could just be weird. But if its advice you want, tell people how you really feel, and i suggest making yourself known. Put up posters and everything but dont' make promises you can't keep. And don't do corny things either like, I will get two vending mashines in the cafeteria and stuff like that, it rarely works. Good luck with your campaign and give what the people need, not necessarily what they want.

[DuoMax]

Student government is the biggest farce on the planet. Just make a mockery of the system. Have some fun with the teachers and the principal. they'll probably freak if you say that Communist deal. :D

[Arasoi]

[color=royal blue]As it seems to be in many other people's schools, the Student Council elections for my school are based almost entirely on popularity. It really doesn't matter what you say, as long as you're popular. Plus, the more outrageous ideas seem to get you more votes.

However, in my school, you actually have to work if you're on Student Council. I'm my class Secretary, but that doesn't compare to the work that the Student Council does in my school. They're in charge of setting up pretty much everything, and I noticed that those who didn't think that Student Council would be much work last year when they ran, didn't run this year because it was too much for them to handle.

So, if your school's Student Council is like mine, you should try to be prepared to actually work. But, from what everyone's been saying, it doesn't seem that the Student Council of many of your schools do much, so maybe mine is just a rare exception.[/color]