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The following essay was submitted by a 4th grade Student Council hopeful at
West Hampton Beach Elementary School...He won!

"If I got elected for Student Council I will put more technology into the school. By putting more technology into the school I will upgrade the computers with more megabytes so that the students will be able to work faster and go to higher levels faster. I would like to see less textbooks and more work being done on the computers.

I would like to see the teachers know the children's feelings better because I am seeing lots of students copying off of other students because they don't believe in themselves. I want the teachers to teach their children who daydream to be better in listening and learning.

I would let the children pick their own language to learn. Trained people will come into language labs and teach the children.

Another thing we should fix is to have monitors stationed throughout the playground during recess because when I go out I see about five monitors in one place on the playground.

The last things I think we should switch is to speed up third grade a little and slow down fourth grade. I think this because I saw some students getting confused with what they were doing."