Governance at Olde Columbine is a whole school meeting in which we have democracy. In fact governance is almost a better and more accurate democracy then America itself. What we vote on comes from the people for the people. When we vote everyone is equal and majority wins the vote. In America for certain things majority wins but with other things it has to be passed through different legislations and offices and then they get to decide. Therefore it’s not for the people by the people.

Everyone one, teachers and students are equal; if all the teachers don’t want something but the students do, the proposal gets passed into the handbook. Governance and its’ democracy is good for OCHS. If someone doesn’t care and doesn’t vote oh well it’s their choice. We believe in individuality, therefore with the democracy part people are able to care or not, to get upset, to invoke in some conversation about something, find out about something.

In America though; people are able to do all that but to only and extent. Lets look at it as if, legislation is the teachers and the citizens are the students. A vote took place, and majority said yes, so it get’s passed to legislation and they don’t think it’s the right thing at least not right now so it gets thrown out. America says it’s by the people for the people, yet it doesn’t feel like it.

As you can see America is mischievous in many ways. They go around certain things. Also they’ll make a law people want, but yet there is another law contradicting that law. At OCHS when they say it’s student lead, run and for the students they are not kidding. All rules are basically made by the students to help students, as long as they abide by state laws. All in all governance is an ideal democracy; granted it can get hectic but what would be democracy without that.