To The Editor:Thirty-nine years ago this author wrote a letter to the editor of this paper on the peculiar student government election process at Wright City High School. Writing and submitting a piece to the local paper was a requirement and the election process presented a fertile topic. An update seems appropriate. Wright City High School’s student government 39 years ago included a president, vice president, treasurer and possibly secretary. The peculiar aspect of the school’s election process in reference to the “real” election process was that the faculty appointed the candidates rather than the students selecting or students announcing their candidacy.That departure from the “real” election process taught us that we were not mature or discerning enough to adequately pick our representatives and some higher-minded group should make such decisions.Events of the past election suggest we may have a process similar to the Wright City High School election process.Thomas Jefferson, in his letter on April 24, 1816, to Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours, states: “We both consider the people as our children, and love them with parental affection. But you love them as infants whom you are afraid to trust without nurses; and I as adults whom I freely leave to self government.”We must not cede our democracy by conceding that there is a governing class and fool ourselves into believing that such a class has only our interests at heart; governing for the good of the people without regard for their personal wealth, power, or status.Ron Meyer,Former Wright CityHigh School studentLemont, Ill.