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July 2014

How to take the Competition and Popularity Factors out of a Student Council election

Student Council elections are part of middle school. As a teacher I used to dread holding them in my classroom, until the year that most of my class ran. I know it sounds counter intuitive, but by having so many candidates I actually had to enforce “campaign rules”. Students also had to take their campaign seriously. Standing up and promising to make recess longer was not a campaign promise that anyone in the room was going to fall for, because…

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