Youth Legislature

My son has been chosen to be in Youth Legislature this year. Actually, we've known about it for awhile since we had to pay $50 for him to do it. But in super excited news, he drafted a bill for his school and they sent it off to the Youth Leg people in charge, and his bill is one that they are going to vote on!

Youth Leg sounds really neat. They elect a governor, a speaker of the house and something else. All the other kids are senators and house of representative members. They are assigned to certain Departments and they get to present their bills and their arguments for it and then it's voted on. It's a 2 day event at the Old State Capitol and it sounds like tons of fun!

His bill: The state should allow kids to have 3 full months of summer vacation. His points: it will save money on the schools not to operate the air conditioners in the middle of summer; it will give the kids more rest and able to do summer sports and still have time for a real vacation before school starts; and something else that I forget. Now he is researching his bill to find out facts to support it. And I must say, I haven't helped him a lick. He's come up with this and is doing it all on his own. I'm pretty impressed with the amount of effort he's putting into it too...especially since it's not sports oriented!