This piece is so helpful—thank you for addressing this important topic and opportunity. I plan to use this column to introduce the sortition/deliberation idea vis-a-vis student government to local educators and school administrators.
These are schools through committees and a central parliament. I don't know of such a school that uses sortition, but these schools can be a great place to experiment with sortition.
This piece is so helpful—thank you for addressing this important topic and opportunity. I plan to use this column to introduce the sortition/deliberation idea vis-a-vis student government to local educators and school administrators.
I think the last sentence is missing some words. It doesn’t quite make sense.
Great idea to try this in schools! I might try to bring it to schools I teach at this year!
Have you heard about Democratic schools?
These are schools through committees and a central parliament. I don't know of such a school that uses sortition, but these schools can be a great place to experiment with sortition.
the example of the flawed electoral system for student councils is very powerful