At Stuyvesant High School, a Presidency Is Won, and Quickly Revoked

Jack Cahn maintains an A average at one of the country’s best high schools. He speaks three languages and is learning a fourth. He writes for a Huffington Post blog, is a highly ranked debater and, he says, had three girls ask him to prom this year. But what he wants most right now, and at the moment cannot have, is the presidency of the Student Union in his senior year at Stuyvesant High School. Mr. Cahn, 17, was elected president this month, but the school’s Board of Elections immediately

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