Student+Council+Election+2015

On October 2nd at Lyman C. Hunt Middle school. There was an assembly where all of the students, teachers and staff went into the auditorium and listened to all of the officers speeches. The four offices are President, Vice President, Secretary, and treasurer. Each office has two people running against each other in them. All of the students, teachers, and staff will vote after the assembly. Everyone in the school filled the auditorium with excitement and joy to hear the speeches of the students running in the election.

Maggie Barlow and Logan Steele ran against each other for president. Chloe DeBedout and Ramsey Elder ran against each other for Vice President. Mariposa Davis and Enzo Boone ran against each other for Secretary. Last but not Least Ami K and Will Belluche ran against each other for treasurer. Everyone in each office wrote a speech and read it to the whole school to convince the students to vote for them.

After all of the officers read their speech Maggie and Logan had a debate. Two students that are representatives for student council came to the table with Maggie and Logan. The two students asked Maggie and Logan a couple of questions to give the students an idea of how Maggie and Logan would solve the problem or make the school a better place by improving it some how.

As all of the students and teachers listened to the speeches, everyone heard something that might have caught someone's attention that would make that officer running, the perfect officer for that place in the election. Only one person from each place will win.

The officer that is not elected can be a representative for student council, and still share their ideas with everyone on student council.The ideas that they bring up might not always be solve but they will try there best to get all of the requests that they get fixed and solved

After the assembly all of the students went back to their homeroom and voted online for each office. At the end of the day during the afternoon announcements they announced the official officers for the student council 2015-16. For president… Maggie Barlow! For Vice President… Chloe DeBedout! For Secretary… Enzo Boone! And for Treasurer… Will Belluche! Everyone was excited and congratulated all of the official officers for this 2015-16 year!

I interviewed some students around the school, and asked this question, “what are some things that you would like to see change around the school that can be brought up to student council?”

Emma Larivee 8th grade on Oasis said, “I would like to see some upgrades in the sports jerseys, because the ones that the school has now have been around for a while. I would also like to see some more options in the vending machine, like granola bars, Gatorade or something like that for people who don’t have time to eat dinner in the cafeteria before a sport or something.”

Olivia Maher 8th grade on Oasis team said, “I would like to be able to carry backpacks around the school all day.”

Maria Walters 8th grade on Solstice team said, “I would like the school to do more good things for the community, like maybe have a club or group that helps out local charities.”

All three girls have great ideas to bring up to student council, and hopefully student council will hear what Emma, Olivia, and Maria have to say to have their problems be solved, or work as a compromise, and to make the school a better place. As Emma said I think that it’s a great idea to put some more items in the vending machines because sometimes I don’t have time to sit down and have a whole dinner before practice, so instead I could have a granola bar. With the backpack concern, last year this was a big issue too. It was brought up a lot last year and maybe this year is the time to solve this dilemma. Maria’s idea with the clubs and helping out charities is another great way to get to know people and make the school a better place.

I think this years 2015-16 student council is going to be a great hard working team and going to get the work done to make the school a better place!