We compared the election results to our class election. We talked about how it was important that rules were stated at the beginning and that if you wanted to change the rules, you would have to do it afterwards. Clinton may have gotten more votes, but Trump "stacked more states" (An ipad game the students really like) We can't change that rule for this election (They tried to color all the red states blue) but if we think the rule needs to be changed, we can try to get it for the next election.
I had asked if they wanted it to just be a 3rd grade vote or a 2nd grade vote. They agreed to let the 2nd graders vote too. T won the election with 13 votes to J's 12. I proposed the question if J had actually gotten more 3rd Grade votes, should she have won the election instead? J thought so because it was "just for 3rd Grade President not President of 3rd and 2nd Grade" and said "we should have a recount"
My students decided that they should let the whole school vote (The 4/5th Graders had also done an election for Kid President of their class. They opened up voting to the entire community and had all 14 students run.) and then each candidate would get to "stack the grades" and the candidate who stacked more of the grades should win. Why? The felt it was "more better the more people who were voting"
K, who ran one of the polling stations revealed that she was too busy working and that she had forgotten to vote, but it wouldn't have made a difference because her vote would have gone to T. We chatted about how a lot of people didn't want to vote because they didn't like either person. "Well its not fair because we can't even vote for real, so if you can you should"
I'm pretty confident 12 years from now in 2028, they will all be voting :)
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