The Campaign Trail

Tyler came home with a paper that had student government officers listed with each of their responsibilities. He then proceeded to tell me that he was going to run for Treasurer. I said ok, cool. Then he said, "What is a treasurer?" "It's the person that handles the money." "Cool, I like money. Ok." And so began the campaign trail for Tyler.
This school has strict rules for campaigning. It had to be totally done by the kids, nothing computer generated at all. So Tyler set to work on his poster. He made sure to tell all his friends and told his friends to tell their friends to vote for him. All his siblings were getting the word out: VOTE FOR TYLER!
Today was the last day of his campaigning. He gave a speech that he had memorized and been practicing. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to watch and capture that moment. At the end he says, ". . . So vote for me, Tyler Sasaki, and I'll make it count." We are so proud of Tyler for even attempting this and sticking it out to the end. These student body government positions are open to both 4th and 5th graders. They only have one student body government for the whole school. So Tyler was competing against older kids. He even had one kid on the playground tell him he was going down. That didn't stop him.
The votes are in and now we wait. You know the funny thing, only the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders were allowed to vote. That means, that none of my other kids were able to cast their vote for Tyler. That's ok, they gave Tyler enough support that he knows they would have.