Vote for Effie by Laura Wood

Author:Laura Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2019-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER Fifteen

Emergency Highworth Grange School Council Meeting – Monday 7 November

Minutes recorded by Angelika Lisowski

Meeting called to order at 3.30 p.m. by meeting chair Miss Sardana.

Members present:

Chair Miss Sardana

Aaron Davis (junior student president) (FOR NOW)

Matt Spader (junior student vice president)

Angelika Lisowski (junior student secretary)

Luna Stanworth (junior student treasurer)

Effie Kostas (candidate)

Reading of Agenda

•Miss Sardana explains that meeting has been called at the request of Effie Kostas. There is huffing noise from Aaron Davis. Effie explains emergency meeting called over lack of clarity of student council debate day proceedings.

•Miss Sardana agrees the agenda.

New Business

•Effie Kostas makes passionate speech about the upcoming student president debates. She is a very good public speaker actually. Some might say that she’d make an excellent president. Not me, of course, because I’m just an impartial observer, definitely not a member of her campaign team.

•Effie is banging her hand on the table. Even I can’t write quickly enough to keep up with what she is saying because she has such passion. In short: she wants the student council debate rules to be clearly established, but she also says some very stirring things about a revolution that is brewing and how we should not ignore the downtrodden masses and now she is quoting Hamilton lyrics and I’m not sure if she’s going to rap or not but I would fully support her if she did.

•She doesn’t. :(

•Aaron Davis says that everyone will find the student council speeches boring and that making them longer will just put people off, which is a bit daft if you ask me. Not that I have a strong opinion either way.

•Matt Spader agrees with Aaron.

•Effie Kostas replies that she understands why people find Aaron boring but that she has a lot of interesting things to say.

•Miss Sardana makes a strangled sort of groaning sound and tells them to be quiet. Both candidates are now silent and glowering.

•Luna Stanworth reminds everyone that she has to get to netball practice.

•Effie takes a deep breath. She is talking slower now so I can catch the details. She wants each candidate to get ten minutes to make their campaign speeches and then for there to be a quick-fire section where candidates have to answer a range of questions on various different topics.

•Snorting sound from Aaron as he asks what she is going to bore on about for ten minutes. Rude.

•Matt Spader laughs hysterically as though Aaron has made a hilarious joke.

•There is a humongous thud as Effie Kostas produces a spectacular ring binder. (Note to self: ask Effie where she got that beast from.) It is stuffed full of paper and has many dividers and Post-it notes sticking out of it. On the front is a picture of her face Photoshopped on to Emmeline Pankhurst’s body. She asks if she should go through her issues alphabetically or in order of importance.

•Miss Sardana nervously reminds Effie that we only have the room for ten more minutes.

•Luna Stanworth reminds everyone that she has to get to netball practice.

•Aaron wonders why Effie wants to change everything when “our school is already the best”.

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