Changes for Julie / McDonald, Megan

Julie sets out to change the school system after she gets in trouble for helping her friend, Joy, who is deaf, and runs for student body president, but when she learns the other students do not like her choice for vice president, Julie considers dropping out of the race to avoid defeat.

In the mid-1970s, Julie decides to run for student body president after being sent to detention unfairly and comes to find that many of her classmates do not like her prospective vice president, Joy, because she is deaf.