Friday, March 18, 2005

Student Politics makes me sick

I'm so disgusted with the student politics here in my school. Since I'm a freshman I had high hopes for these so called student leaders. But heck during the campaign period I already sense the animosity between the two political parties. It is not just simple competition its deeper. I have learned that the political clashes here in my school has a bad history. The opposing parties really have personal grudges with each other. They accuse each other of cheating, corruption blah!blah! Now this election the losing party filed a petition against the winning party. Then the latter was disqualified and the circus began. The disqualified party retaliated bad they are accusing the commit on elections as being biased and even the school organ they diss it too for being partisan. I'm really sick with these students for God's sake we are in one school we should be united. When I entered this school I have heard that one of the problems is that majority of the student population are passive meaning to say they don't care about the school'events, issues and other matters. I promised myself that I wont be part of that group. I joined one interest organization and I also practiced my write to vote. But now I can't blame the students if they really don't care, The student leaders the ones that we should look up to are bad examples. They are unreachable plus look at the election how did it turn out? Chaos! How would the students be interested in participating if they don't see something that could boost them. Its a dirty system and it really disappoints that this small school community has too much politicking that makes me want to vomit.....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You know what, I envy the political culture you have in your school. Yours is an active and dynamic student government while ours doesn't even come to match. You complain about dirt and controversy during your school's student council elections but in another perspective, that makes for the color and dynamism of the whole thing. In our school, student body candidates run unopposed. And in an even pathetic note, they compete with nothing but voter apathy. Students in our school do not even know about the student council and are pretty much unaware about plebiscites, elections, and stuff. There are even times when no student council officer is elected because only a few people come to vote. And if you get sick of student passivity in your school, wait till you see apathy in ours.