8th Graders Participate in State Junior Youth in Government Model Legislature

Before traveling to Dover, club members researched ideas for new laws that would benefit the state and wrote mock bills to introduce at the conference. Once at the Model Legislature, WFS students presented their bills to the assembly and engaged in lively debate with representatives from clubs around the state. Students had the unique opportunity to sit in the actual State General Assembly Chambers as they participated in this simulation.

All WFS student bills passed the legislature and were signed by the Youth Governor, including a proposal to set a three-day wait period for a gun purchase, a request for the construction of three additional domestic violence centers to serve survivors in Delaware, and a proposal to cover braces and other orthodontic treatment for individuals below a certain income level. Participants were 8th graders Abby Haynes, Hannah Jackman, Ivy Jackson, Bennett Martinenza, and Beckett Rogalski.