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Well yes, this idea is good on paper and is realistic to what schools do in the real world, there can be issues with this.
A few examples would be a student getting elected that has no idea how council is ran, has never been in council before, or has no leadership experience. Another one is bias. Someone getting elected just because they know all the sports teams or because they are the prettiest/most handsome student in the school, or the most popular, just to name a few. Student Council should not be a popularity contest. Presidents are picked based off of many other factors like their skills and activity. This risks someone being elected that doesn't know what they are doing and overall taking council down.
We can incorporate more ways that students and the council can interact.
Again, there are other ways to do this than an election.
+ 1 to this suggestion overall. Having council elections would be really fun! A lot more fun than what we currently do at least, as it pushes for player interaction. I personally loved running for "best councillor" because it was goofy and gave me a reason to start approaching people and well... roleplay. And they had a reason to reply to me.
I am on the college council and I can say that we NEED more roleplay desperately. I've tried suggesting one idea to get the council to roleplay with students more through silly in-character conflicts but not much effort was put towards it. I can assure you that if we had SLT select like four councillors INCLUDING VP to run for president, it wouldn't be someone with "no leadership experience" or "has never been in council" - All those concerns can be easily fixed
by having requirements to run. I feel like elections would be soosososo fun, let the players running have little events, or a speech over the intercom. Bring the competition on!!! And if you're super worried about the candidates.... why not have it be secretly rigged behind the curtains? Just have someone in-character cheat and oh nooooo they got disqualified for REASONS. (Make it a scandal!!!!) (HAVE A TEAM CORRUPTION ARC WHERE ONE TRIES TO RUIN SOMEONES CAMPAIGN?!?!?! THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS!!!!!) (and all IC so hopefully no OOC hard feelings bahahaah)
An election month would bring so much life as long as the people running go crazy and have some creative freedom for their campaigns. And if you're worried about a popularity contest.. well, that's what the current system is too to an extent. Our current system is whoever the President chose as VP gets President. (As far as I'm aware)
OTHER NOTE REGARDING RIVALRY: Council
needs to do something, we need something fun to do outside of giving detention and breaking up fights. Why not let councillors get involved in the rivalry? Not actively participating in the acts per say... but getting the two offending teams to sit down and apologize/make up/force friendship. Just for fun IC stuff! I feel as though it's a little silly we can't participate.