From Foster’s Daily Democrat:
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Sen. Harold Giard says he was skeptical when he first saw the bill on the agenda of the Senate Education Committee. “When I first saw it, I said, “What is this?”
But after he heard from the sixth graders from the Swanton Central School, Giard, D-Addison, said he was convinced the idea of making snowboarding the official state sport had a chance to make it into law.
The class descended on the Senate chamber Tuesday afternoon to testify in favor of the idea.
“I think they really did their homework and gave us the facts to back it,” he said.
Katie Cleary, Myriam Bouti, Jocelyn Shusda, Rachel Greenia, Alex Benckert and Michael Wilks took turns at the witness table to tell Senators about their research.
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