This is a very realistic depiction of real world politics actually.
Idk, for real verisimilitude the Communist kid should get murdered by the CIA.
I ran in a communist party for my school mock election, we only had 3 people and couldn’t agree on whether we wanted people to vote for us or abstain from voting. We devolved into leftist infighting and didn’t have a coherent message, so I guess that’s pretty accurate too.
why do American schools even have student governments? I went through the fuckin school system and I don’t think there was ever a student government that had any real power. Real company union vibe to the whole deal.
When I was in high school they got us a communal microwave to use, which was neat I guess
In Argentina some pull strikes and protests for better school conditions and usually for political causes too. See the recent abortion legalization campaing, the historic student free-transit pass (that earned them being kidnapped tortured and killed by the last dictatorship), and the usual “this school is fucking crumbling you dipshits, we gonna block the streets until shit gets repaired you fucking shitstains”
In New Zealand we have a student representative on the Board of Trustees.
Like, literally, the board of the school is required by the law to include a student. Every board meeting of the school including hiring, firing, restructuring, discipline, and policy decisions has to have a student representative present.
I got elected to that role and it was chaos. A story for another time.
They’re a) pressure relief valves that allow some sections of students to believe they have some degree of autonomy and b) social clubs for the wealthier and/or hoity-toity students to make connections with one another
Idk but in Argentina in the seventies some of those highschool “student governments” in some key cities were based enough for the dictatorship to kidnap and kill all those children. :agony-deep:
The few public highschools that depend of the public Universities in Buenos Aires City, Córdoba, Rosario, La Plata (and maybe some others I don’t know about) are normally really based, and their students councils or whatever are cool too, and as I said they have a history of being cool. Recently, they were pretty active in the abortion legalization campaign.
Inb4 the CIA assassinates that student candidate and Juan Guaido declares himself president of the school
Sounds like the school was teaching them about how the U.S. handled post-war independence movements.
