My daughter ran for student council president in sixth grade last year. So did a quiet boy named Ethan. My daughter is a lot of things, but quiet is not one of them. She made posters, she made buttons, she gave a speech that made the principal laugh. Ethan's speech was about two minutes long. He said he wanted the school to have a lost and found that was actually organized, because he'd lost his jacket in October and it was at the bottom of a box with three hundred other things.