<p>MANY many clubs in our school are student-run. </p>
<p>but there is this ONE club that I am in, and i spend the most time in. And it is led by a teacher who does NOTHING to improve the interests of the club and I really REALLY have ideas to bring it to new directions. I have previously lead the club in a competition/fair thing and after it the club returned to inactivity and the teacher to inactivity. </p>
<p>Not that I am intent on resume padding, but how can I make this official? </p>
<p>I already ahve ideas in first boosting membership, then integrating the club w/ community service as well as many volunteering interests. I mean I've got a lot of interesting things to try out. I'm willing to do more, but after the fair i mean, NOTHING happened. </p>
<p>i just don't want to do something for a club a president normally would do, but not be called a president</p>
<p>How would you approach the teacher? Or would would you do. Thanks for saying.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why being called a president seems such a forbidden thing to you. Try it. It gives you instant authority.</p>
<p>But here’s the thing. I WANT to be called a president, at least be able to put somethign OFFICIAL like an actual POSITION. </p>
<p>right now i’m doing things that a president normally owuld want to do, but when people ask “hey are you the president of the club” I can’t answer yes because the teacher wouldn’t identify it. Not that she doesn’t recognize what I’ve done for the club, just that she’s never thought of it being student oriented that way.</p>
<p>So go ask the teacher if you can be president</p>
<p>so the question is, has anyone really done that before? (or you know anyone who has done that) and what happened? </p>
<p>my teacher is one of those ppl who misinterprets EVERYTHING. siigh. but i’ll talk with her</p>
<p>I made my club: Novel-Tea (a bookclub) , so i am president :D</p>
<p>show the teacher this thread. i think she’ll take the hint</p>
<p>haha yea. </p>
<p>the thing is i COULD make a new club, only its functions is gonna be a lot like the one that already exists <_<</p>
<p>SO has anyone “asked” for a position before?</p>
<p>Well one club I co-founded so I’m automatically co-president there</p>
<p>The other I came in as a freshman and was most involved other than the president who was graduating so we had a moot election and the advisor pretty much knew I was going to get it anyway</p>
<p>So no I haven’t asked, but I don’t see any problem with it. I don’t know your teacher though</p>
<p>I totally know what you mean.</p>
<p>At my school, Yearbook is a semester-long class. People rarely take it multiple times, so it’s not really considered an EC, just a one time thing. There are no “editor” positions because people can’t work their way up over multiple years. Everyone in the class is title-less.</p>
<p>I took Yearbook for the first time Semester 1 of my sophomore year. The teacher/adviser really liked me and I worked REALLY hard, so she convinced my guidance counselor to let me take it again second semester. I stayed after school and worked on the yearbook at home and did basically the entire yearbook my sophomore year and I thought the teacher really liked me, so at the end of the year I asked if she would consider making me the editor-in-chief for my junior year. She was really annoyed by that and basically told me, “We don’t do that at this school.” </p>
<p>I took Yearbook again all of my junior year and continued to stay after school with the adviser and come in on Saturdays and I was the only kid in the school committed to doing that. So then one day I asked the teacher to give me extra credit in the class and I reminded her that I deserved some recognition for working harder than anyone else and I casually brought up the disagreement we had had about the editor title. </p>
<p>Then, she wrote me a letter giving me the position of editor-in-chief, which I am now. But she never gave me the extra credit.</p>
<p>Completely bizarre and complicated, but basically if you work really, really hard (like a president would) and keep pointing it out to the teacher and keep suggesting ways she should reward you, eventually you will get something tangible to put on your resume.</p>
<p>^ thanks. my teacher is exactly like that…she would be annoyed at a request like that. but i’ll work for it 
it’ll be a good challenge.</p>