Class Debate News Article By Margot NEW YORK, NY – The candidates face off in the first presidential debate on Friday, November 4th, in Deborah and Joel’s 4th Grade classroom. The highly anticipated presidential debate had arrived as the audience sat and got settled, watching how this would play out. The first presidential debate had all the candidates anxious, wanting to get more votes, and to make a good impression. They started with opening speeches. Presidential candidate Asher Cohen’s main platform was, “We believe that if the class does something well, they should be rewarded.” Lots of candidates had platforms for less homework and more recess. Romy Croquet believed in, “We should have dessert at lunch.” Lots of candidates agreed that they have more homework on Mondays, and that amount should be lowered. Then debate moderator Ezra Mundy announced they would be moving on to questions. When asked, “Why would you make a good president?” Candidate Alden Homet said, “I would make people happy and take everyone’s ideas into consideration.” When candidate Miles Thakur-Greene was asked if he thought his ideas would satisfy both men and women, he said, “Both of them don’t want to be bored in class all day.” When candidate Makeda Brodie was asked, what would you do as president she responded with, “I would be the exact opposite as Trump,” And when candidate Croquet was asked why she would make a good president, she told them, “I wouldn’t be all about myself and I would be open to people telling me about their problems.” There has not yet been a winner of the debate decided. There has been no increase or decrease of the polls for each candidate that they know of. The debate was 26 minutes long. The candidates worked on slogans and posters. The slogans generated enthusiasm among the voters. The teachers wondered if they could live up to their promises. QUESTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES from Romy: Hello, today I have some questions you might want to think about! What is your platform? How do you plan on making this happen ? How do you plan on getting people to vote for you? Why are you running for president? Do you think both boys and girls will wants this? Will the other class get to do this as well? Do you plan on doing anything else or, is that all? Do you think that this is fair and equal? Why are these your ideas? Where did you get your ideas from? Is there anyone else who copied you? Did you get ideas from anyone? Platforms: From Asher and Avery: We believe If the class does well on a subject or problem you will get rewarded that week with extra recess or get pokemon cards from us or Joel. We feel if we finish a unit of work we will be able to do a fun activity to practice it. We promise less homework than we would normally have once a week. We will make statistical teams that are fair based on a week of kickballs hits and outs. Dan will do this. If someone struggles in a lesson they will be respected by other kids.We want to give more chances for people to share their work because it will build their confidence.WE believe we can do better. We’re 1 unit fits in with all of our ideas. We are a respectful and caring community. If you tell us in advance that you are voting for us we will give you a I voted sheet. From Alden: Hello everybody! I am running for president of the class! If I become president I will make everyone have less homework some nights, and we will all have more recess some days too. I will take anybody’s ideas on how to make this classroom better or fun and decorative. I will want everybody to have a fun day at school. We can make far and strong teams for kickball and have a lot of time for that because if I become president there will be more recess! We will have all those things and more. Thank you so much for listening to my speech! Please tell me your ideas when you get a chance! Thank you again! Laiali reporting on the first debate: Makeda-Gia Alden-Bailey Asher-Avery Miles-Alex What changes do you want to make? Alden/Bailey-more reases and less homework. Avery/Asher-When Joel was smaller kid he had pokemon cards. If someone did a good thing good pokemon card.Longer reases. Sit where you want. Gia/Makeda-Lower homework on Mondays. Less homework, more free time/more recess for 5 minutes. Miles/Alex-better food,more fun. Alden/Bailey-Have fun. Why are you running? Miles/Alex-To help people. Gia/Makeda-Make changes. Sometimes people don’t want too much of a challenge. Avery/Avery-I’m running because feel we can make a difference. How can you make a difference? Miles/Alex-Better food,more fun DGia/Makeda-We can make a difference by helping the community with their problems. Avery/Asher-We can make a difference by making people feel comfortable messing up. Debate questions: What do you plan to do about the hesitation disease? Do you want to make any changes to lunch? What do you plan to do about HW?- How will we get all of the work we need to get done done without HW? Why did you choose that person for the job of vice president? What do you plan to do about kickball? How do you plan to make a safer environment for our learning to run smoothly? How do you plan on handling the frustration of being pres? -Laiali,Ezra. Debate questions by Laiali and Ezra: What do you plan to do about the hesitation disease? Do you want to make any changes to lunch? What do you plan to do about HW?- How will we get all of the work we need to get done done without HW? Why did you choose that person for the job of vice president? What do you plan to do about kickball? How do you plan to make a safer environment for our learning to run smoothly? How do you plan on handling the frustration of being pres? Thursday, November Seventeenth, 2016 The Build Up to Election Day by Margot Story NEW YORK-Anxiousness is in the air as the candidates for Deborah and Joel’s class election get all ready for the two debates and voting tomorrow. Every candidate is working up, as debate moderator Laiali Tapper warns the candidates of questions that may not be their main platform ideas. People cannot wait for the votes to come in! All the reporters are being peppered with questions about who they are voting for, yet they still say “I shall not tell.” BALLOT by Zen and Nate President Makeda ____ Independent Party Gia ———————————————————————————————— Asher____ Independent Party Avery ———————————————————————————————— Miles____ Independent Party Alex ———————————————————————————————— Alden___Independent Party Bailey ———————————————————————————————— Romy___Independent Party Suko ]]>