Student Counsel

Disclaimer: In this article, like in everything else, I will assume I know everything about the subject at hand. Get over it. Also, this is all just my theory. I literally came up with it 10 minutes before writing this.

Student council (stuco, for those of you who aren't hip, aka me) isn't as great as everyone in student council thinks. Now, I'm not saying that the people in stuco don't do anything, or that stuco is a waste of time, it isn't. Stuco does a lot for their school, but it's mostly just labor work.

Stuco kinda ruins the people who are in it. The people who run for student council are hard workers who believe that they are good leaders who can do something for their school. But the problem is (at least with private schools; not sure about public ones) the people in stuco are only allowed to make small decisions. They get to decide what to wear on spirit days, but there are still so many restrictions its not even funny. You have to wear a shirt, it can't be sleeveless, and shorts have to be so long.

People in students council are basically low grade brain washed. I'm not gonna say how much this brain washing affects the people after high school because I honestly don't know. I'm going to say it does affect them enough to be a problem. The people in stuco are told they are able to make big decisions for their fellow students, and that they should lead them well. But then the staff of the school restricts their authority. The staff doesn't let stuco decide what the students are allowed to do, they just give them a small list to choose from.

My theory is that this is ruining our future leaders. The people in stuco believe they should be leaders, and usually run for leadership positions after school. But the schools are giving the stuco members a false belief of what leadership is. They're telling the students that if you are a leader, you can't control full scale what people can and can't do; you only get a small amount of control. This means that the students in the future might not make the decisions they should, just because they don't believe they have the power to. This means only people cunning enough to realize how much power they have will use it to their full extent. I believe this is why dictators and leaders who rose to power aren't necessarily smart, but are more clever.

I'm not saying the schools are wrong for limiting what stuco gets to do, if they didn't, schools would be in anarchy basically. I'm just saying that they shouldn't hype up what stuco is. Schools shouldn't label student council members as the leaders of their grade, but more as the labor force driving the school forward. Yes, it doesn't sound as appealing or heroic, but it is more realistic.