The five-day school week with Saturdays off was introduced in Swedish schools in 1968. The decision was preceded by a debate in which the student voice was unusually present, not least through a nationwide vote among students in 1959. The vote was widely covered in the media, with several newspaper articles, radio, and TV programs. In this chapter, I will discuss how students were given a voice during the debate over the five-day week, between the years 1958 and 1968, from when the issue was first raised to when it was finally introduced in 1968. I will discuss three ways in which students’ voices were heard: the referendum, the Student parliament and a government inquiry. These examples represent three fundamentally different ways in which the student voice reached the public sphere: direct democracy, representative democracy, and polling.