HEAD, BOY!

Today there were student council (senior man, headboy, big kahuna) elections at the school I work in. It seems that the past elections had been "rigged" somehow and everyone was making a huge fuss about it. No one really cared about these things when I was a student -was it maybe that perhaps my generation was just too cynical to give a flying fuck?

The school tries to make it look like such a terrific honour to be elected headboy, when in reality they know it's much more of a burden instead. Let the kids wince to this self-induced stupidity once they realise about the various mindnumbing jobs they'll get (like having to say a speech for every school event, from graduation to teacher's day) plus dealing with the petty complaints of their peers everyday after they win! What a treat! Sign me up!

Still, I guess it's mostly the popularity contest nature of these things what interests the students, which is why they do it in the first place. Later on they will come to realise that they were wrong to think that there is nothing cooler than being an administrative toy during one's final year of highschool.

Teenagers can be so naive sometimes.