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The Votes Are In.

May 10, 2009 by Lloyd 11 Comments

Well, the votes are in, and we have a movie to show on the last day of middle school. Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions. We had a fairly large number of suggestions, so the first thing I did was throw out all of the movies that I didn’t want to see. Then I threw out all of the movies that were over 110 minutes long. Then I decided that, since I had already gone to all the trouble to figure out the run time for each movie, I should put up a web page so that other people didn’t have to do the same thing. It’s been up for a few days, and people are already visiting the 50 Best Movies for Middle School page. That actually took a few days, so, when I finally got back to the task at hand, I found I still had a couple of movies too many for the ballot that I wanted…

Vote early. Vote often.

We did an Instant Runoff Election. As a former libertarian, I knew about alernative voting methods, but didn’t have any experience with them. This method is simple enough that we could do it manually during Codes & Ciphers club. The final outcome was decided by one vote, and we had to throw one ballot out (hanging chad) that would have resulted in a tie. The kids really liked that.

Here’s the final order:

9th place: High School Musical — Last choice for over half of the students
8th place: Labyrinth — No one had heard of it
7th place: Sky High
6th place: Clue
5th place: Enchanted
4th place: The Princess Bride — This movie really needs a different name
3rd place: Edward Scissorhands
2nd place: The Sandlot — Most 1st place votes
1st place: Secondhand Lions — Most 2nd & 3rd place votes

Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: middle school, movie

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  1. Brad says

    May 11, 2009 at 3:50 am

    Hehe… Only you could make showing a movie to middle schoolers into hours and hours of work.

    I like the page. Whoever stumbles upon it will definitely be glad for the help.

    Reply
    • Lauren says

      May 11, 2009 at 4:36 am

      Agreed. You should see his chart for loading the dishwasher – he throws out the dishes that are too large, the ones he doesn’t like, then he loads them according to how long it will take them to get clean.

      Reply
      • Lloyd says

        May 11, 2009 at 5:33 am

        It goes faster once you have the system down.

        Reply
  2. Peggy says

    May 11, 2009 at 7:24 am

    Now that you have the movie, it’s time to figure out the snacks & drinks for the movie. Please submit your list for voting as soon as possible.

    Reply
    • Lloyd says

      May 11, 2009 at 7:48 am

      Nooooooooooooo.

      Reply
    • kiwe says

      May 11, 2009 at 8:56 am

      Corn on the cob…because they grow corn in the movie

      Reply
    • Rae says

      May 11, 2009 at 11:30 am

      Oooo, Ooooo, I know! Homemade ice-cream! We can make it in one of those ball freezers and kick it back and forth between the desks until it is done!

      Reply
    • Brad says

      May 11, 2009 at 12:10 pm

      I say you should go with Mountain Dew and giant Pixie Stix.

      Reply
      • Curt says

        May 11, 2009 at 1:10 pm

        Ha! A bunch of Cornholios.

        Reply
        • Annette says

          May 12, 2009 at 1:13 pm

          Hi Curt!
          I know who you are now!

          Reply
      • Lloyd says

        May 11, 2009 at 2:07 pm

        We’re going roller skating in the afternoon. That should be fun.

        Reply

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