Student Coucnil elections have been around for decades. Every year, popular kids at all grade levels get their election on, promising all sorts of things like more dances, better snacks in the cafeteria, and a soda machine. At the end of the day, they amount to a glorified popularity contest, and teach kids a valuable lesson about civic mindedness. Overall, they’re usually not that important.
But a nutty California principal doesn’t think so:
There’s a big election controversy at a California middle school after the principal discovered that not enough black or Latino students were elected to office.
Principal Lena Van Haren’s decision to withhold the results of the student government elections angered parents and students at Everett Middle School in San Francisco.
“It’s not okay for a school that is really, really diverse to have the student representatives majority white,” she told the San Francisco Chronicle. “The easy thing would have been to announce the results and move on. I intentionally did not choose the easy way because this is so important.”
This is bizarre. As the piece notes, there’s no allegations of fraud or duress. It is, after all, a popularity contest. What this election suggests, if the student body is as diverse as the principal suggests, then this is a sign that kids are looking beyond race and judging each other on the basis of character.
Isn’t that what ending racism was all about in the first place?
AAN Staff
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