Sen. Sanders learns from concerned Vermont high schoolers

Posted: Feb 10, 2018 04:33 PM EST

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Montpelier, Vt. - Senator Bernie Sanders learned what concerns young people in Vermont from the finalists of his annual essay competition. The Statehouse Meeting Hall was filled with intelligent high schoolers on Saturday morning.

“For eight years now, we’ve gotten kids from all over the state to write essays about what they would do… what kind of speech they would give if they were President of the United States,” Sen. Sanders said.

Young minds raised concerns to the Senator such as discrimination, cost of higher education and climate change. Other topics included dreamers, marijuana and sexism.

“It amazes me to hear what these young people are thinking about,” Sen. Sanders said.

The students hope their voices will be heard through Sen. Sanders.

"I hope he gets energized,” Prue said. “I hope he gets some new ideas. He probably has thought about a lot of this stuff before but I hope he really takes into consideration how important these things are and I hope there's some inspiration for him.

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