7th Grade Officer Classroom Speech

Ryan has enjoyed being on the student council this year. He is a natural leader, and is always so kind to everyone; most of his classmates really like him. He has decided to run for 7th grade officer for next year. Since several elementary schools feed into each junior high school, and since student government officers have responsibilities before the school year begins, there are elections at each of the feeder elementary schools. Each elementary school chooses one student to represent them in the 7th grade officers.

There are three 6th grade classes at Ryan’s elementary school. All students who wanted to run for office had to make a speech to their own class. The classes each then chose two students to run. The week of Ryan’s birthday, each student will put up a poster in the 6th grade common area, and then will give a speech to the entire 6th grade. The students will then vote, and the student with the highest number of votes will be the representative. Conveniently, since Ryan’s birthday falls that week, we’ll be taking treats. Non-bribery, of course.

I was able to hear Ryan’s classroom speech, since I was there for my volunteer time. He did a great job. He is hilarious, and had the class laughing, even without his *laughter* and *applause* signs. He talked about how much he had enjoyed serving on the student council this year, and then talked about some of the things he would make sure that the students had in junior high – like access to indoor plumbing, lunch EVERY DAY, a choice of classes that they could take. They thought that was pretty funny.

It will be fun to see how he does!