My classmates gone political

[snipelfritz]

In sixth grade, we had a mock Bush-Gore election, and the town I live in is an extremely conservative community, so I was one of the only kids who was for Gore, and all the other kids made fun of me. Ah, but now the jokes on them.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

The Green Party always does well in the mock young-citizen elections around these parts

 

[Capulet]

If that's the case, the Green Party will have alot of support once these kids grow up, haha.

 

[Moss]

I remember having Bush vs. Clinton polls in 1st or 2nd grade as well...Bush won, good ole Ross came in second and poor Clinton was third. If voted for Ross...

 

[Scuffer]

In these debates, did anyone talk about what the parties were going to do, or was it all the usual rubbish about who did what in a war? Really hope it's the first.

 

[BasketCase]

I was in....I think it was 4th grade when my school held a mock vote in the 1980 election.

After the ballots were cast, a bunch of the other kids laughed at me when they found out I voted for Reagan. Then Reagan won by a modern-armors-vs-warriors-on-chieftain-difficulty landslide, and the laughing stopped real fast.

 

[Fetus4188]

Be glad you're not in CA I can't get through any of my classes except for math (because the teacher is from Belgium and barely speaks a word of English) without some snide comment about dubbya from my liberal teachers.

 

[Babbler]

I have to talk about politics in school, since my hummanities course is Global Neibourhood. Being in the land of free health care and professional whinning, and where the "forbinned langangue" is used, most of my college would go Kerry.

 

[bigmeat]

i live in an upper middle class/lower upper class neibourghood, in california filled with rich democrats, the worst kind of democrats! That spills over into my classrooms too, but the discussions are mostly between the teacher, my liberal friend, and me the conservative

 

[danirus]

Haha, seems like every Civ-player was the most political aware person in their class during kid-school

 

[Marla_Singer]

Well no offence to anyone, but at the age of 11, the political debate was certainly more about what parents think than about what kids think. However, I think it's a good initiative to make debates at school. That actually helps kids to think by themselves. At the age of 13, we were doing a debate each 2 weeks in class. It was a fun experience.

 

[Arminius]

Although I agree mostly Marla, I do have to disagree based on an experience of mine. In 5th Grade we had a mock election between Clinton and Dole. We went into the little cardboard booths, and when it came time to count: Phillips won, even though his name was not on the ballot. He was written in by 57%, which was unheard of because they did not tell us about writing in candidates. Perot got > 1%. BTW it was at a Catholic School in South Louisiana. (Gotta have $$$ or a HUGE child support check...)

 

[Aphex_Twin]

Interesting. Back in the 6th grade the most hotly debated issues in our classrooms were what's been new on MTV and which team will win the next football championship. Other interests included playing hide-n-seek, climbing trees and pullink pranks. But I did have 5-6 people in my classroom who joined the liberal party after highschool.

 

[Tomoyo]

In my school there is a conservative club! Led by the only conservative teacher in my school. Only two members, and they're both liberals.

The average argument is usually "*Insert candidate name here* is a *Insert random insult*"

 

[Godwynn]

All we do here is make fun of Alan Keyes.

Same Here.