There are only 535 members of congress in the federal government representing 346,007,657 people in America. That’s not a lot of representatives, right? However, they have the most power. There are 17 county legislators in Westchester out of 989,898 people in Westchester. This is good that Westchester has a lot of legislators because then 1 legislator has thousands of people to represent, unlike millions of people. I went on a field trip to the county government in White Plains and was a county legislator for the morning. Today I am going to tell you two things I learned about the legislative branch, and two things I enjoyed most about taking on the role of a legislator.
Two things I learned about the legislative branch is that it has the Senate and the House of Representatives in it, and that legislators are called “legislator *name*.” When I was listening to the directions of what to do, they said that we needed to say “legislator *name*.” Also, if you were the chairman/woman, you would be called as “Chairman/woman *name*.” There we talked about if we should make public schools wear school uniforms. Here’s what I say about it; You shouldn’t make schools use school uniforms because kids should have the right to choose what they want to wear to school. However, I do think that schools should have a dress code, because what if a kid comes to school in a bikini? However, you might be thinking, well, wouldn’t it be a very proper and smart school if you make them wear a school uniform because then they wouldn’t be distracted by their clothes? Plus, if you have a school uniform, then you would know all the spots where a kid can hide a cheat sheet, so you can check those spots. Still, kids shouldn’t go in an itchy, uncomfortable uniform.
Two things I enjoyed doing were being a legislator and saying what my opinion was for these random bills. For example, here’s a bill that we got: Should you ban vending machines from schools? I don’t want them to ban them because what if you didn’t have a snack and you were planning to stay longer because you didn’t understand a question, or you got detention? Then you could get super hungry, and that’s not good. However, they should limit how much you get, so that you don’t eat too much junk food. Plus, Teachers usually stay longer than the kids, and they ONLY get lunch. What if they want a little snack to eat?
Overall, I loved going on this field trip. In this blog post I talked about 2 things I enjoyed writing about 2 Things I learned on the field trip and 2 things I enjoyed the most about taking on the role of a legislator. Would you have gone on this field trip?