Greetings parents!
Our fourth grade is organizing a student council. Our new Social Studies unit is US Government and we will soon witness another peaceful transfer of power when Mr. Trump becomes our new President on Friday. These two events have inspired our four 4th grade classes to organize a student council through class elections. Everyone is VERY excited! This is how it will work:
-each fourth grade class will elect two representatives; students who are running will give speeches on Friday-each fourth grade class will vote for their own representatives.
-next, there will be one President and one Vice President who will be elected by all four 4th grades; there are so many students interested in this spot that we need to have a primary election-on Friday our Presidential candidates will give speeches to their own classes-then each class will take the top four vote getters to establish our candidates in our election on Friday, 1/27 . On this date, 1/27, the 16 Presidential candidates will give speeches and then all four classes will vote by secret ballot to determine the winners. And YES, I will have an election committee to oversee the election process and count the votes and announce the winners.
-once our student council is in place, we will have 8 representatives, one President and one Vice Preident-this group will meet every other Wednesday, at lunch with me or Mrs. Greco to create a list of ideas which would make our school a better place for students and for our community.
Hopefully this experience will provide students with an opportunity to work together on important school issues as well as learning the value of participation and the democratic process.
So in the words of the great Martin Luther King, Jr.
” Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'”
Sincerely,
A. Cronin
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