Wait for it...waaaait for it...

Ha, I hooked at least one person into thinking that this would be a post about an ACTUAL My Little Pony bill in our ACTUAL Congress. Teehee I'm so funny~

...anyway.

So a very few of you might recall that, about a week ago, a friend of mine (hi @NeonDinosGoMeow) posted a topic asking for pros and cons to his congressional bill. Basically, the bill would require kids from kindergarten through their senior year of high school to watch My Little Pony in school to learn lessons about friendship, politics, etc.

Before someone gets all uppity (again), let me say this: this was for an event called Silly Congress. Another bill proposed was to use cats as professionally trained soldiers and rename horses as "pre-cars." Obviously this MLP bill would not pass in our real Congress.

My friend ended up passing the bill by a landslide in his speech tournament, with only one person opposing the bill. The speech class at our school loved the bill. The judges loved the bill. But most of all, the speech teacher loved the bill.

So I walked into her class today with my friend so he could drop some things off. Now I don't have her as a teacher, mind you. She's fairly new to our school: young, hip, and full of energy. Everyone is her friend which, apparently, included me. As I walked into the class, she accosted me:

"So," she said. "You're the mastermind behind the My Little Pony bill."

Well, yeah, I suppose so, but I really just offered up the idea. My friend did all the work. She said that she loved it and thought it was a great idea. Like, an actual great idea. Not a "Let's get this passed by Congress" great idea but a "Let's try this in our school" idea.

So she made the speech class watch the first episode of My Little Pony today during third-period. The results, as I've heard them:

One (1) kid though that it was weird. Well YOU'RE weird, Rebecca.

One (1) kid, who I originally thought to be a hater, is now at least neutral on the subject. He wanted to make it very clear, however, that he did not "hate" the show.

One (1) kid jumped up from his chair halfway through the episode and yelled "How have I not known about this before?!"

And NeonDinos and I just laughed.

On the 31st of the month the speech team is having a Speak-tacular show to raise money for one of the kids going to Nationals. They have time to debate one Silly Congress bill.

Guess which bill they picked?

- Kolth