Pros And Cons Of A Class President

A class president, or any presiding leader, should regard the popular interests of his or her citizens as the highest priority in their efforts. The president’s representation and loyalty to citizens serves as the foundation of America’s democracy. In the past year’s election however, the voting setup of an electoral college was met with controversy due to the fact that, though America’s popular vote chose one candidate, members of the electoral college selected the opponent. This outcome led many, including myself, to believe that the college truly does not guarantee proper representation of citizens’ desires in government. Thus, I would not endorse a similar voting process to be implemented in Orefield Middle School. My disinclination is founded on the premises that most middle school students are not mature enough to suitably speak for their peers, unfair bias due to personal relations can be introduced in committee voting decisions, and all students are at the same level of learning, with no individuals having more qualifications to officiate elections than others.
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Our election system should come to embody a free and thoughtful community of people who have equal valued opinions, not one that is partisan and discriminatory. If we choose to implement an electoral college, OMS would be depriving itself from potentially fantastic but oppressed voices and student ideas. Rather than founding a balanced and nurturing society, an electoral college may wrongly lead students to assume that their opinions do not matter and they are not valued, which of course, is completely untrue. For all of the aforementioned reasons, I implore OMS to consider the many negative impacts that small committee would create and instead pursue an equal, free, and expressive school