Junior Statesmen of America

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>At first, I was considering setting up a partisan political club, but someone mentioned Junior Statesmen of America. I looked into the program and it looks like something I would really like to set up at my school. </p>

<p>Can anyone with experience with JSA tell me their personal experience with the program and/or the logistics of setting up a chapter at your school?</p>

<p>As a rising senior, do you guys think it is doable for me?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance</p>

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<p>Hells yes! We have JSA at my school and I really enjoy it. It's a great way to open up non-partisan political debate. I don't know much about how to start a chapter, but here's the advice from the site: <a href="http://www.jsa.org/download/startupguide.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.jsa.org/download/startupguide.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I think it's totally doable, esp. considering it's an election year, so you should be able to recruit members quite easily.</p>

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<p>ou think otont of tuoucse not you saunf have.?</p>

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<p>^^Huh??????</p>

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<p>jsa is the best</p>

<p>all you need is a few members, contacts with other chapters, & chaperones for conferences</p>

<p>some chapters have 4 members and are still considered important</p>

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<p>My best friend went to JSA at princeton the summer before senior year.<br>
She then set up a chapter at school.</p>

<p>(She loved it to death)</p>

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<p>Thanks everybody. </p>

<p>I'm bumping this up...super tired of reading art<em>of</em>mind's depression threads...all 5 of them!!</p>

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<p>I am the one who mentioned it in your thread, and I founded my chapter at my school. Lmk if you have any questions. Just call them, give them your address, they'll send you everything you need. Membership dues are 4 dollars IIRC and you need 8 members, including yourself, to start the club.</p>

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<p>My daughter, sophomore in AZ, is at the Princeton JSA right now. Unbelievable how hard they are working. It sounds like a great program. She plans on trying to start a chapter when she returns.</p>

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<p>its a good program, theres a chapter at my school, the people hardly do any work but we have great discussions. and convention is always fun too, its like a nerd social gathering!</p>

<p>and yes, i'm tired of artofmind's depressing storeis too.</p>

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<p>Thought I would bump this up again,</p>