Your Character Matters: 5th grader elected president proves leadership is character

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE) – In today's governmental landscape, it is astonishing erstwhile a person gains wide support, but it's adjacent much astonishing erstwhile the person is successful 5th grade.

In a astonishing schoolhouse election, 5th grader Timothy Mireles snagged the highest presumption successful pupil assemblage government, showing teachers and students that existent enactment is not conscionable astir votes — it is astir character.

"Timothy ran for president past twelvemonth and helium was successful 5th people past year, and helium bushed retired the sixth, seventh and eighth graders," said Kevin Blanco, a teacher astatine Palo Verde Elementary School.

While immoderate politicians trust connected flashy campaigns, Timothy relies connected authenticity and kindness.

“He's precise caring. He cares a clump astir people.  He's adjuvant too. Whenever idiosyncratic needs something, he's ever giving it to people," said sixth grader Leslie Vega.

Just similar a well-crafted policy, Timothy’s positivity transforms the schoolhouse environment.

 “My favourite happening of coming to schoolhouse is conscionable seeing the joyousness of people, teachers, and adjacent parents," Timothy said.

“He's a precise unsocial person, arsenic acold arsenic his character. And it does reverberate astir the school. Timothy, whenever helium comes into my schoolroom and you tin archer it, the demeanor of the schoolroom changes, due to the fact that he's truthful positive,” Blanco said.

His slogan: marque radical happy. His legacy: genuine altruism.

As helium serves his term, Timothy wants the radical to retrieve wherefore helium ran.

“I thought it mightiness beryllium a archetypal accidental conscionable similar to be, to assistance the schoolhouse retired due to the fact that usually galore kids are complaining to their teachers that they don't person similar immoderate schoolhouse equipment. So that's wherefore I wanted to go president, to assistance the classrooms and kids to bring instrumentality and marque them happy,” Timothy said.