08/09/2007
Democracy in action
By JACQUELINE MANNING
The Bristol Press
Student wins election as write-in,
but her freedom of speech is still the bigger issue
BURLINGTON - The upcoming seniors of Lewis Mills High School have demonstrated that democracy is still alive within their student government.
A recent release of the ballots for the school's 2008 student council election, which was held on May 25, revealed that 53 of Avery Doninger's classmates hand-wrote and circled her name on the ballots as 2008 class secretary.
Of the 128 total ballot votes, Avery received the ... [highest number] despite the fact that her name did not appear on the original ballot.
2 comments:
AMEN, BROTHA
Common case of , "Do as I say, not as I do." How do we expect the future leaders of our country to conduct fair and balanced practices when those who teach and mentor them don't even have a clue. Is this a failure of the education system in part? Or a system tainted by the infamous "No Child Left Behind Act"? The taxpayers of this town should home school their children until there is some resolve to this issue. I would hope that the staff of this school is under the microscope.
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