Carr, Childs first class co-presidents

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Will Ritchie
May 28, 2010
Filed under News, Top Story

Nikki Childs and Taylor Carr reside over the senior class as the first co-presidents in the school’s history during Legacy’s fourth school year in 2010-2011.

After two class votes the candidates’ totals tied. Joking around to each other both times, Childs and Carr tossed around the idea of becoming co-presidencies. After Student Council sponsor Dena Schimming announces the intention to do just that, Carr and Childs latched onto the idea. Their first order of business involves figuring out who can handle which areas the best.

“When you have two people who obviously reach out to a different crowd then we have different opinions and a different perspective,” Carr said, “there will definitely be disagreements on a lot of things.”

To sort out who would run each specific area of being senior class president, Carr and Childs picked and chose their tasks over the phone, leaving things they couldn’t split like the end of the year speech for later.

“I think [working together] will be beneficial,” Carr said, “but I won’t say that it will be completely peaches and cream.”

Carr hopes the two very different personalities herself on Childs bring to the position will help to make the senior class more cohesive.

“We see this in our government now. We have some Republicans and some Democrats and Obama is trying to find some unity between the two,” Carr said, “what he taught in the beginning was that if you have an equal number of both then you have happy people, and that’s what we have here.”

Childs knows she will have some rocky situations to overcome with Carr during their tenure, but believes their friendship will help to overcome it.

“We’re not gonna agree on everything, but we’re mature enough to work it out so it won’t be a big deal,” Childs said.

When they first thought about being co-presidents, Carr and Childs began to split up the duties for the position, leaving the more difficult ones for later discussion.

“There are some things we cannot do together and we cannot tackle together because it requires one person, so the first thing I want to do is get those things settled now,” Carr said.

Carr and Childs have left the senior class speech decision alone, hoping they will be able to come to some sort of agreement that will allow both of them to tackle the speech.

“We’ll just wait and see,” Childs said, “I mean it’s not a big deal but it is the senior class speech.”

Carr believes the easiest way to split up the rest of the tasks involves determining who can, or cannot, perform the duty.

“We’re gonna figure out what my strengths are and my weaknesses and then what her strengths and weaknesses are and that’ll go into all the decisions we make,” Carr said.

Carr and Childs have been friends since eighth grade. Using their friendship as a basis for their co-presidency, Carr and Childs believe they will accomplish far more together than they ever could alone.

“We’re both really close to different people and hopefully it will help us when we make decisions for the entire student body,” Childs said, “We get along really well.”

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