Kentucky Education
This year at KYA three, the bill sponsors have created multiple bills, all including education. Kentucky students have developed a passion for bettering our schools and making it a safe and fun place for all ages to grow. Education has grown so far from one-room schools to multiple rooms, dormitories, and a staff of 100 people. Now, students are continuing to carry on enhancing the school system for the future. After interviewing the bill sponsors of these education bills, it’s transparent that Kentucky’s students have this ambition.
Even though these bills are about education, the multiple branches of this topic are endless. The safety, meals, curriculum, staff hiring, etc. all have to be decided in a way that is the best for Kentucky students. The bill sponsors’ information about their bill either came from a one-on-one interview or their speech. McKenzi Lunsford, a bill sponsor of commonwealth bill number thirty, said that their bill was set apart from the other education bills at KYA because it gave the students hope for what they wanted to do with their future. Another sponsor, Chloe Marstiller, which is a sponsor of commonwealth bill number thirty-eight, highlights that her bill was different because it was to make students become more healthy, but also be good for the environment. Lucy Emery and Sara Powers, which are the sponsors of commonwealth bill number five, say in their speech that their bill is differentiated by allowing students to have more opportunities in high school and getting money for those opportunities. Yet another bill took a different stance on education. Bill sponsors, Camden Clark, Ethan Easterday, Noah Owen, and Kayla Vanover, presented a bill on a state vocational education program. They said, in their speech, that it provided the students with more hands-on experience.
However, when the KYA three attendees were asked, “Why is making an education bill important?”, the answers were very similar. They all said that it was for the students’ future. They used terms like “long-term effects”, “more educated state”, and “after high school”. When KYA brings these determined Kentucky students together, it is very powerful and will affect the future. They ARE the future. Education continues to change because of the passion Kentucky students hold.
These bills would dramatically change Kentucky. Right now, our state is much changed then it has been, as mentioned before. However, KYA attendees have bigger ambitions than ever. Just the third KYA alone has 32% of the commonwealth bills about education. That speaks volumes. This shows how much Kentucky educations can change. As Anges Repplieng once said, “It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning”. Education is a big part of the lives of Y-Kids. While sitting in committees, there were times where almost all of the placards were up. The student YMCA can not wait to see what the future holds.
