In honor of President’s Day, our first grade class discussed a few important things…

Why do we have a president? 

• “So he or she will be in charge of us. If people make bad decisions, he’ll help them make good decisions.”
• “So he can tell us what to do.”
• “A president could lead and go more places than a king and do more stuff too. Kings are important but not worth that much. A king basically has guards that are responsible for everything so a president is more responsible than a king.”
• “I think the president makes up the laws. A king just sits around and says, ‘Go get me this and get me that.’ He doesn’t really do anything.”
• “Kings don’t take showers. They just make the servants do everything. The servants never get a day off. That’s not nice.”

What is the president’s job?

• “He tells the government what he wants to be done and the government decides if they want to.”
• “The president’s job is to make laws pretty fair.”
• “The president will live for 8 years and the king will live until he dies. When the king dies a new one comes. Kings are lazy and the president is not.”
• “To keep people safe and make sure people don’t do bad things.”

Who can become president?

• “Not me…I’m too small and cute!”
• “Anyone who makes good choices. I don’t want to be president, I want to be a teacher.”
• “George Washington.”
• “You can be president if you be nice and tell people what to do.”
• “Somebody from our class might be president.”
• “I can be president and some of my friends could be too.”
• “If the most people vote for the same person, then that person can become president.”

xo