I remember as a kid in school that during election years, my schools would hold mock presidential elections where the students would "vote" for one of the presidential candidates. It was a sort of citizenship education exercise meant to get us to look forward to voting when we got old enough. I remember I first did this in 1988 and I voted for Bush because I was six years old and I thought Dukakis sounded like "dookie".
Did you do this growing up? If you have school-aged kids, do they do this? I'm wondering how common this is or was.