By Isabella Anne Robinson-Moreira
Hello, my name is Isabella, and I will be telling you four ideas for laws I would make if I were mayor for a day.
Isabella Robinson-Moreira joins the Capitola City Council (from left): Yvette Brooks, Alexander Pedersen, Mayor Kristen Brown, Margaux Morgan and Joe Clark.
If I were mayor for a day, I would first make speedbumps at every stop sign. I would do this because sometimes people don’t or forget to stop and might crash into another car; also because teenagers might crash from taking a driver’s test. They might not stop in time or just maybe don’t see the sign.
If I were mayor for a day, I would secondly make school start at 8:45 a.m. so kids can get more sleep, and so that we don’t miss school. For 3rd grade and below school ends at 3:00 p.m. and for 4th and 5th grade it would end at 3:30. This way students can get more sleep.
Because school would start at 8:45 and many parents start their jobs at 8:00, there can be a before-school program. It would start at 7:50 and end at 8:30.
For the third law, I would also make guns that aren’t for safety or police officers illegal.
For the fourth law, I think we should make schools safer by adding gates, someone at the gate to let them in if they’re a parent or student.
Last but not least, I think we should stop raising prices when somebody does theft, so that the prices are fair for everybody.
There, now you know what I would do if I were mayor.
•••
Isabella Anne Robinson-Moreira is a fourth grader in Ms. Jess Pitsch’s class at Soquel Elementary School.