Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness had a message for the Fishers Junior High School “We The People” team: It’s important to care about your community and have organic ideas to improve that community if you want to run for public office. Just wanting to be in office or arguing public policy issues should not be the reason you to become a political candidate, the mayor said.
The team won the national championship, the second straight year a “We The People” team from Fishers Junior High School has earned that national honor.
Mayor Fadness urged the students on the team to use the skills they have learned to express and argue public policy issues and someday run for public office with very specific ideas on how to make the place in which you live a better place to live.
Mayor Fadness (left) and Fishers City Council President Todd Zimmerman (right) congratulate Fishers Junior High “We The People” team coach Mike Fassold. (Photo provided)
“The fact that you put Fishers on the map is outstanding,” Fadness told the students on the team. “My hope is, in the future, you would apply that one narrow skill set towards pushing a particular idea that can make either your community, or your state, or your country better.” Fadness downplayed the use of political rhetoric.
Fishers City Council members Todd Zimmerman, Cecilia Coble and Eric Moeller asked the students about the competition and their trip to the nation’s capital. Mayor Fadness and Council President Zimmerman handed out Community Achievement Awards to each of the students.
“We The People” is a civics competition where students prepare a paper and answer questions from judges about law and the United States Constitution.