"Their voice matters’: Local students debut advocacy projects during ‘Civics Day’

kxan ^ | Dec. 10, 2019 | Chris Davis

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Hundreds of Central Texas students debut projects Tuesday that illustrate their advocacy on local issues they care about, like homelessness, school safety and climate change.

Civics Day — a sort of science fair, but for government — is the product of the national nonprofit Generation Citizen, a group that gives middle and high school students hands-on experience working with local governments.

“I can’t think of a more important thing to teach my kids than that their voice matters,” said Kyle Olson, a government teacher at Austin ISD’s Northeast Early College High School...

Olson’s AP government class brainstormed ideas at the start of the semester for projects they wanted to tackle. They came up with reforestation and its impacts on climate change as the issue they wanted to address.

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An AP Government class "brainstormed" but could only come up with planting trees for their Civics Day government project. Next year, the ***AP Government class at Northeast Early College HS*** should pick toenail polishing.

[eartick]

Don’t forget about the cow farts.

[BenLurkin]

Maybe they should actually study while they are students.

And just zip it.

[Sequoyah101]

I wonder how much effort the little farts are willing to put into planting trees?

Brain storming? Homelessness, the climate and reforestation are all they have? Sounds more like a brain shower or drizzle to me.