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VIDEO: Fourth graders do their part to rock the vote

Posted at 8:40 PM, Nov 05, 2012
and last updated 2012-11-05 20:40:40-05

Democracy Prep’s amazing fourth grade citizen-scholars want people to vote in the November 6 election, so they created this video.

The Harlem Prep Hawks sang their civic message loud and proud to the tune of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.”

They said the intent is to inspire voters to “Vote Obama, Vote Romney,” just vote for somebody.

Democracy Prep is a network of public charter schools in Harlem, NY and Camden, NJ. Their motto is “Work hard. Go to college. Change the world.”

The network said the aim to prepare responsible citizen-scholars to succeed in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.