Well, at college we have a student council of sorts and we choose a person from each class to go to the meetings but there's no voting or elections. Our college is quite lax. It's probably loads different in different places :)
I'm from the UK by the way.
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At my secondary school there weren't really any elections at all.
At university there are for loads of different positions within the student council, student unions, sports association, individual clubs and societies. My university isn't very political though so quite a lot of the positions are uncontested and the vote turn out is pretty low.
At college with have elections for the student council, anyone can nominate themselfs and then they have a campaign including posters, bribes such as money off vouchers for the canteen etc. The elections are held online (college intranet) and i think the 5 people with most votes get through. The person with the most votes overall becomes president.
The main thing the council seems to do (or the thing that everyones interested in!) is college parties. They organises them and sell tickets.
However they do attend meetings, change things around the college etc.
In the past theyve had a cash machine put in college and a wind turbine.
hope that helps!!!!!!
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The only big one we have is Homecoming Queen/King in high school, which the senior class (the ones about to graduate) nominate each other and then the top 10 guys and girls are put on a ballot for the whole school to vote on. It's pretty much pointless tbh.
Student council is essentially voted on by each year's head teacher, people just submit the application and then a teacher panel goes though and picks out like ten or so people, who then vote among themselves for president, vice president, etc.
In high school, we had homecoming king/ queen, and Winter Formal King/ Queen and Prom King / Queen. We also had school elections, but those kind of ended up being the same group of friends. Just like the dance kings and queens.
I just voted in an election for my university.
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At my high school (ages 14-18; last four years before uni), we had elections for the student body president among the whole school, and each class (i.e. grade level/year) had elections for two class reps. The student body president and class reps made up student counsel, which met once a week at lunch but didn't really do very much. I think there were also a few other elected positions for dance committees and stuff, but I don't really remember. It was a pretty small school (each graduating class was about 80 people, and the whole school was a little over 300 students), so we just had each class meet and vote on paper ballots. The meetings were mandatory, so most people voted. There weren't political parties or anything.
We didn't have elections at all in middle school (ages 11-14; the three years before high school). We did have elections for class reps in 5th grade (ages 10-11), but I'm not sure what (if anything) they actually did. My elementary school was K-12, and although 5th grade is normally still elementary school, it was part of the middle school at my school, so we had class reps like the 6th-8th grades did. I moved after 5th grade though, and my new school didn't have elections at all. In about 4th or 5th grade it was a presidential election year for the US, and we had a sort of a mock vote at school where we all voted for who we'd want for president (by secret ballot and everything, just like the real world), even though it didn't actually count for anything and we obviously weren't old enough to vote for real. Back then though we mostly just voted for whoever our parents were voting for. There definitely weren't any political parties or anything in elementary or middle school.
At my college (uni) we have elections for the student body president, the student senate, and I think a few other things as well. I think voter turnout is really low though, even though it's done online via the school's intranet. Personally, I voted once when one of my friends was running, but other than that I haven't bothered and I usually don't even know when the elections are. The student body president sends out weekly emails to all the students, and I think the president and senate actually do have some influence with the administration and such and actually do some things besides just send out emails. There's also judicial board and honor counsel and all sorts of committees and stuff that I think are mostly appointed, but I think there might be some elected positions somewhere in there, although I don't really know which are elected versus appointed. We also have elections for school funding of student organizations, where basically we vote for 6 organizations/events that we'd most like to give student body funds to, and 6 we'd least like to give money, and the top 6 organizations get extra funding in order of how popular they were (so whatever got the most votes gets the most funding, and the last of the top 6 gets the least funding of those 6 but still more than what the rest of the organizations that weren't in the top 6 get). I tend not to remember to vote in that one unless there's an organization I actually care about that's in the funding poll (which there usually isn't), but I think the voter turnout for that isn't too bad. Like the other elections, that one's also done online using the school's intranet.
As far as I'm aware, my college (uni) doesn't have political parties that are specific to the school (like for student body elections or such), but most of the students are old enough to vote in actual state/local/federal elections, of course people are mostly registered as a particular party (it's a pretty liberal school, so mostly democrats and various left-wing parties, although I'm sure there are a few republicans as well), and I think there are probably some partisan political organizations around, but they're not a big presence on campus. There's also the communist society, which as far as I know doesn't have much to do with real-world politics, but is definitely a significant presence on campus.
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in england at my high school we had a prom queen in the year 11 prom XD
but our school is really stingey and only threw that one party :(
and i think we have another prom in year 13
il let you know if kings and queens are elected when i get back :)
