I can’t answer your question but would like to point out that in public schools and in many private and co-ed Hebrew Day schools this is common – at the junior and senior high school level. It is called the Student Council. There are representatives from each grade plus an overall president, vice president, secretary and treasurer and they are all elected by the students through full fledged election campaigns. It is a wonderful way for students to begin learning about public service and politics. In fact, two of the fellows who were student council presidents when I was in high school went on to major political careers – one of them became the Mayor of Vancouver, B.C. and the other became the Premier of the province – which is like the governor.
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