By Cassidy Fedor

Messenger Staff Writer

Placer High’s homecoming votes have been judged as a popularity test. Students are giving their opinions on what can be done about it.

Let the teachers nominate. The only problem is, who wants the teachers to nominate? It has been Placer’s tradition for years of leaving the nominating to the students. The reason this has been talk lately is because students at Placer feel that the nominating system isn’t fair, that the students who are chosen are meant to represent the school, who are instead representing their level of popularity. Also, that students who are valuable citizens aren’t getting their fair chance at getting elected, simply because they’re not popular.

“Either the way the vote goes it’s going to be waited. If the students vote it’s going to be for the most popular people, their friends, and then the teachers are just going to vote for their favorite students” said Nicholas Ward a junior here at Placer.

“I mean, it’s a popularity test, but oh well, what are you going to do about it? It’s been a popularity test for years. It’s  tradition now” is how Natasha McGown, a junior, viewed things.

So what about the teachers then? How do they fit into this? Should we let them be the ones to nominate? Should they be able to vote along with us? Or should we keep the tradition going?

“The teachers aren’t around the students as much as we are so if they voted it wouldn’t be the student body’s opinion” commented Adya Harbour on if she thinks the teachers should be the nominators.

“Plus,” Harbour goes on, “their might be some opinions formed that some teachers don’t like a student and that they pick favourites. So maybe it isn’t the best idea”.

That is true, that the staff and teachers may have biased opinions, but that is what this whole situation is about. Students do the exact same thing. They base their opinion off of whose name they hear the most. Now this doesn’t apply to the entire student majority, but it definitely is the majority.

No matter what, teachers or students, either way the decision is going to be biased. Might as well leave it as it is, and maybe one day the students will decide to nominate for who represents the school better, rather than who has the nicest hair.