Suonio, Rasmus
Introduction
This is the second time I’m running for the Youth Council. I have acted in positions of trust in the past: I served on the student association boards of my lower and upper comprehensive schools. In my final year of lower comprehensive school, I acted as the Chair. I can assure you that my election pledges will not remain just talk. At the moment, I am the secretary of my school’s student association board, so I am familiar with influencing and managing affairs.
Hobbies: Basketball
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Answers to the election machine
Schools should have more days during which they only serve vegetarian food.
There is too much vegetarian food already.
Schools should focus on grouping more extensively than now.
Not in lower secondary schools, but maybe in general upper secondary schools, as they have strong traditions, such as the Vanhojentanssit school dance and Penkkarit benchpressing fest, so it is important that everyone knows each other and are kind to each other.
Distance learning needs to be established as a permanent learning method in addition to contact teaching.
Some young people in our society cope better with distance learning than with contact teaching, but others do not. Due to this, it should be kept as an option, but I don’t want everyone to choose distance learning, as you can learn interpersonal skills at your local school. Distance learning is a good thing if the pupils are able to learn as much as in contact teaching.
The competitiveness of young people’s sports activities should be reduced.
Why? If young people want to compete, let them compete.
The City of Helsinki should primarily offer summer jobs to those young people who do not yet have work experience.
It is a good thing in principle, but naturally the person who does the job best should be chosen for it. It is important that young people gain work experience but it should be acquired with their own merit, and incompetent young people should not be selected for jobs. If two young people are just as competent, I think the one with no work experience should be selected for the City’s jobs.
The public spaces in Helsinki should maintain the division between women’s and men’s toilets.
Making public toilets ‘gender-neutral’ is not necessary, in my opinion, but it doesn’t really affect my daily life.
Helsinki should start offering free public transport to those under 18.
The service users should pay for the service. Of course, it would be cool if public transport was free for minors, but this would come back to us as a debt that our generation would have to pay. School journeys and other necessary trips are an exception to this, and should be free.
It would be better if there were no e-scooters in Helsinki.
It would be better, but I still don’t support prohibiting them; I am strongly in support of individual freedom. If people want to speed around on electric scooters and hurt themselves, I won’t stop them. E-scooters are also convenient and necessary to many.
For a member of the Youth Council, pushing their own goals through is a more important quality than agreeing on compromises.
Candidates elected to the Youth Council are the ones who best represent the worldview and desires of the voter. A Youth Council member should keep their election promises and not fall for compromises of the masses. However, it the compromise is the best possible option, it should be made.
On which topics would you like the Youth Council to focus, in particular? Select the three that are the most important to you.
Young people’s influencing opportunities; Summer jobs; Safety
It is important that young people can influence the matters in their residential area. Young people get job experience from summer jobs, which is important when applying for their first actual job. Helsinki should also be safe, which it is not in some parts of the city.