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Student elections serve no purpose other than to decide who gets to wear the fancy jackets. Normally the election is rigged by having more money to give out fr
by nitrogen 8y ago
Student elections serve no purpose other than to decide who gets to wear the fancy jackets. Normally the election is rigged by having more money to give out free candy and make better posters. Sounds like someone just found a way other than money. If you actually cared about school smarts in a high school election, winning without being popular seems like a better sign of it.
- kelnos 8y agoWinning by doing something unethical isn't exactly a positive message to send to a high school kid, though, no?
- nitrogen 8y agoWhen was high school ever positive, especially a student office election? The only ethical thing to do is to disrupt it a bit.
- kelnos 8y agoThat's a pretty unproductive view, though. You're not making anyone's life better by going down that path.
- nitrogen 8y agoIf you value truth over ignorance, then exposing high school and its elections for the farces that they are is making people's lives better. Allowing students to find their own paths to fulfillment instead of relying on a silly popularity contest seems plenty productive to me. Among countless other problems, high school elections promulgate the idea that there can be only one hierarchy, that there is a group of "betters" that should comprise that hierarchy, and that the only measure of merit in that hierarchy is popularity.