Ever thought about overthrowing your student government?

[Namor]

To those who still go to school: ever thought about overthrowing your student government?

Don't know why I want to start this discussion, but it seems to me that my school's student council/government is growing too lazy, undemocratic, inefficient and corrupt. There seems to be some sort of untold and invisible criteria to get to the very top, and in my school as long as you're rich, you're in. These people always tend to be the popular peeps, but I just don't get it: how can my fellow peeps stay silent under their tyranny and corruptness? I feel like starting a revolution, but that'll just put a stain into my blank criminal record, so in my school I'm kinda like an invisible dissident.

What do you guys think?

[Avenio]

... What?

[Cannot think of a name]

I can't say in my entire journey through school that I was even aware of my student government at any time.

[Ifreann]

When they managed to run the Student Bar out of business, I was this close to manning the barricades.

[Khadgar]

I don't know that we had a student government. What the hell would they do?

[Divair]

How can you even overthrow it without teacher permission? And why does it matter? I've never heard of a student government that even does anything mildly important.

[Forster Keys]

I had two revolutions at my school. We had captured hot chips and shared them among the people.

[Horsefish]

People have student governments?

[The Orson Empire]

You actually believe student governments accomplish things? They are just figureheads.

[Lancearc]

It was bloody. Brutal.

The overthrowing of my 3rd grade student government ended with the entire student council sent to the gallows.

The teachers were replaced, the school was made a better place.

At the cost of many lives, that is.

[Namor]

How can you even overthrow it without teacher permission? And why does it matter? I've never heard of a student government that even does anything mildly important.

I'm just asking, ever thought about it? Not asking for ways to overthrow it, really, because I know it's not going to go away.

[The Serbian Empire]

Nope, never entered my mind. I did have the idea to run for it once just to fall a couple signatures short of making it on the ballot.

[Divair]

How can you even overthrow it without teacher permission? And why does it matter? I've never heard of a student government that even does anything mildly important.

I'm just asking, ever thought about it? Not asking for ways to overthrow it, really, because I know it's not going to go away.

No, I haven't, because I just don't give enough of a shit about something so unimportant.

[Namor]

You actually believe student governments accomplish things? They are just figureheads.

I know, which is why some people in my school think about revolution. You don't need things that don't do anything.

[Liriena]

Since I was a part of that government...no.

[Pope Joan]

What a meaningless gesture.

As if student governments were ever allowed to exert meaningful power in the first place.

To me this is as misguided as poor people rioting and showing their anger by burning the local stores, the only places that were willing to risk serving them. Go punish the rich people, you idiots.

And unhappy students, go picket the school board.

[The Orson Empire]

You actually believe student governments accomplish things? They are just figureheads.

I know, which is why some people in my school think about revolution. You don't need things that don't do anything.

They are just figureheads. They have no actual power. Just ignore them and continue on with your life.

[Ashmoria]

To those who still go to school: ever thought about overthrowing your student government?

Don't know why I want to start this discussion, but it seems to me that my school's student council/government is growing too lazy, undemocratic, inefficient and corrupt. There seems to be some sort of untold and invisible criteria to get to the very top, and in my school as long as you're rich, you're in. These people always tend to be the popular peeps, but I just don't get it: how can my fellow peeps stay silent under their tyranny and corruptness? I feel like starting a revolution, but that'll just put a stain into my blank criminal record, so in my school I'm kinda like an invisible dissident.

What do you guys think?

it sounds like fun.
don't do anything criminal.

maybe stage a recall election or pick some interesting issue to start protesting about.

[Bolaly]

All the time.

[Gallup]

I tried to. I got a group of kids and we ran together as a unofficial party. We wanted to do radical change, but the rules were so strict we could hardly do anything.

[Arkiasis]

Student Government?

[Namor]

I tried to. I got a group of kids and we ran together as a unofficial party. We wanted to do radical change, but the rules were so strict we could hardly do anything.

Same here. Tried to run, failed because I don't fit the invisible criteria.

[Zweite Alaje]

When I was in school, I never paid attention to the student government.

[Regnum Dominae]

I didn't realize that my student government actually DOES anything...

[Divair]

For those who have apparently never heard of a student government:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_council