The Grade 9 class at Tuugaalik High School have picked a winner. They elected Solomon Malliki as their new mayor during a mock municipal election earlier this month. The students have been holding mock elections for a few years now.
Grade 9 teacher Lloyd Francis said it was the students' idea to continue their political studies by hosting the mock municipal election.
He said he agreed with the idea and quickly arranged for all five mayoral candidates to address the class.
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Francis said the candidate presentations go over well with the students, and they really get to know each candidate better and what their platforms are.
He said with the race for mayor, every student in his class was related to one of the candidates in one way or another.
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Francis said the students didn't ask too many questions of the candidates this time around, due to the fact their presentations were under such a tight time constraint.
He said, instead, the class brainstormed five questions each candidate would answer during their presentation.
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SA国际影视传媒淭he questions the class wanted the candidates to answer were about the qualities they believed they had to make them a good mayor, what they would do to help improve Naujaat (especially for the youth), what experience they had that qualified them for the job and, just to make things a little lighter, what their favourite food is.
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