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#I kinda feel bad for the state Congress cuz they had to listen to us
lonely-thursday · 3 years
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My senior year of high school everyone who took Government and Law (or Government and Economy since it was taught by the same teacher) first semester had to write an actual Bill proposal that we actually had to propose to lawmakers in Olympia
And the school did this every year, so every year the state congress would get flooded with high schooler for one day, and while some people had actual Bill proposal and actual food ideas, a lot of people didn’t cuz we were high school who mostly didn’t want to do this
Plus my high school was pretty conservative so most people’s ideas were downright shitty. The girl I was working with wanted to do a pro-life Bill that would make it harder to get abortions, but I told her that if we did that then I would actively sabotage it every step of the way failing grade be damned, so we went with my idea instead (which was to require compost bins in public buildings)
One of my friends in a different class period (so I couldn’t be in a group with her) actually got a lot of attention with her Bill and had to go back to Olympia to keep presenting it or something (it didn’t get made into a law, but it was close). It was to require schools to start later in the day because 7:30 is just too early
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