Youth In Government: Gavel to Gavel
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February 14, 2013
Teacher Mary Prior explains the "mock session" of the youth legislature.
DAYTON - Senior Bull- dog Samantha Harting saw several of her friends get scraped up in motorcycle spills, so when it came time at her high school Youth & Government club to propose a new law in Olympia, she crafted a bill that might protect them better.
Junior Cardinal Meara Baker, a member of Waits- burg's Youth & Government club, chose a different issue for her bill. She feels that as a state of immigrants, Washington should have a law requiring high school students to graduate with foreign language credits.
"It's important to un- derstand more than one language like they do in Ger- many...
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