Students cast ballots in 2024 mock election

You may have heard—it’s Election Day!

Liv Therrien ’25, Mia Haley ’26, and Gianna Barbieri ’25—who are all members of Youthwork Makes the Boothwork, an organization that aims to get young people involved by serving as poll workers—recently organized an Upper School mock election on the 2024 ballot questions. The goal was to engage students in the democratic process, increase awareness of current issues on the ballot, and help build an informed, civically minded student body at Waynflete. By simulating the voting experience, the mock election encouraged students to think critically about real-world issues and prepared them for future participation in local and national elections.

Middle School students completed a political issues ranking exercise to help them discover their voting preferences. From there, they “voted” by checking in at a new classroom with their voter registration cards and student keycards, casting a ballot behind a voting screen, and depositing it in a ballot box created by Visual Arts Department Chair Jona Rice. Teachers shared the results with students during community discussion time.