Whether casting their vote on extra recess or special themed days with a movie, games, wearing pajamas or a crazy hairstyle, elementary students across the Westfield Public School District participated in mock elections in early November.
With classrooms or other spaces converted into polling stations - complete with registration check-in, voting booths, and ballot boxes - the mock elections provided a hands-on civics lesson, allowing young students to experience the electoral process first-hand.
“I think voting is important because everyone deserves to have their voices heard,” a Tamaques 5th grader remarked. “The mock election was great because it gave us a chance to feel what voting is like.”
