Schools: Student Councils

Student Councils

Unlike membership in school clubs, Student Council positions are by definition limited. Many Feature Characters have a canonical position on student council, and Original Characters have every right to join as well, so the Student Council of each Sister School is larger than is typical, with more subdivisions to permit more Presidents, Treasurers, and so on.

Rivalries for, and turnover of, these positions can be handled by periodic plot. Actual election plots are likely to take place, but 1:1 playerbase votes, which represent only a tiny fraction of the IC student body, will never be the deciding factor in the outcome. Interest in a position in a student council is best expressed via +request OOCly, and epic rivalries ICly.

Variation by School

Like school clubs, Student Council is generally more important in the Japanese school system than in the West. Japanese pedagogy emphasizes making students responsible for their education (cleaning their own classrooms is another facet of this), and so the Student Council's opinions are given more weight than in the West, and membership is concomitantly more prestigious among one's peers. Of course, generally in real life this power is still very modest, amounting to a sort of liason position between administration and students, but on Battle Fantasia, it's often much more than that.

• Infinity, nurturing many political talents, tries to accommodate everyone with Class Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries and Treasurers from each grade, K-12, plus the university level. They vote as a quorum, with some oversight from faculty, on issues as minor as whether or not to promote a petition to improve the acceleration on the skyscraper's central elevator, to as major as the distribution of club funding (the source of many a complex feud).

• Ohtori is notable for its especially powerful student body. At the elementary school level, they have the Guardians, comprised of the King's, Queen's, Jack's, Ace's and (as of Amu Hinamori) Joker's Chairs. The junior high school, grades 7-9, collectively have a President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary. The high school, grades 10-12, have their own, sometimes called the High Council. This is an old tradition, and it is one of the few things Akio Ohtori has involved himself directly in maintaining. The Middle and High School Student Councils in particular wields nearly absolute authority, even able to overrule Principal Kazahana if they wish to... although that might be more the fact that the faculty lives in elemental terror of Juri Arisugawa. Indeed, there is a policy - informal and yet absolute - permitting the council to unilaterally expel students who defy their will (although often the Guardians of the Elementary School involve themselves when this clause is enacted). It is entirely common for positions to be made up and eliminated by the Councils as necessary. While there are occasionally elections, Ohtori isn't exactly a bastion of democracy, and councilors are often summarily replaced by siblings (or rivals!) if they become mysteriously unable to perform their duties.

• Juuban's student council is composed of its class representatives (these are the people elected by each class to call "rise! bow!" at the start and end of a given lecture, plus other, less anime-featured paperwork responsibilities, plus a President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary for each of the elementary, middle, and high school sections. These elections are ICly real (if not OOCly that simple), and tend to feature a great deal of spirited campaigning by students who care, and studious indifference by those who do not.

For more information, please see: Clubs, Student Council: Ohtori, Student Council: Juuban, Student Council: Infinity, Schools