2008-09 School Elections

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Issues to Address: A Call For Action!

Freshman have been constructing newsletter about national and school-wide issues. The research for these articles come from looking at our school from students' perspectives. All students at Constitution High School engaged in a town hall meeting on Constitution Day, September 17. Freshman used the feedback on the town hall walls to build interview questions as well as inform their writing. Newsletter publicists will be posting some of their articles on this thread. Let the conversation continue.

Lunch Bill

Our lunchroom is getting crowded and are food as of right now is not getting better. Who deserves to leave the building for lunch? Is it even feasible to grab something to eat and make it back to school on time? Starting just this past week the House of Students began to informally discuss two bills on the subject written by Todd Latimore and Dr. Davidson. As the sophomores and juniors battle out this privilege, the freshman, who are disenfranchised at the moment, loom in the shadows of this debate. Questions that are framing the debate are what are the requirements necessary to leave school, who gets to go, how will others earn the right to go out if at all, what are the consequences for not getting back on time. What do you think?

Election 2008

Take the www.glassbooth.org test to see which candidate you most likely agree with. Do you agree with the results? What issues should the next president focus on?

Will the House of Student's Defy the Court?

With another possible election around the corner, the house of students grow a little restless with the fact that this business is left unresolved. Did the courts overstep their jurisdiction by recommending a reelection? Was it the job of the court to invalidate Latimore's candidacy or the election? In light of this question, students want this issue resolved so they can move on to the business of governing. How will the vacancy of the presidency be filled? The problem is that the school's constitution is silent on this issue which is why the court recommended an entirely new race. But as some student representatives argued last night, is it fair to allow new candidates into a race when the other two candidates that originally ran were more than qualified? Are the many freshman who were nominated to run for office really interested in leading? Why didn't they run before? Indeed these are philosophical questions worth pondering but their answers might not lead this government to any real solution. So the House of Students considered a few option. 1. conduct a new election or 2. have the interim president (Doriean, who was a candidate for this year and was last year's president) step down and let the Vice President hold the position of president temporarily in order to enact an executive order that would essentially ignore the court's recommendation and send ballots to the people with only Lee and Jackson's name on the ticket.

Student Petition to Amend the Constitution

Taking on the task of changing the qualifications for office, sophomore Christa Pullins has created an on-line petition.

www.ipetitions.com/petition/CHS/index.html

Judge Vacancies

There are 3 vacancies open to the student body for the position of judge.

Article III, Section II says that "To serve as judge one must be at least in the 10th grade, with the exception of 2006 candidates."

Section V goes on to say that "if a position becomes vacant, student not holding a position in the school government may be nominated and elected to fill the vacancy provided s/he meets the qualifications for that office. "