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<\/a>Bob Priest, teacher of the AP Government class, was ecstatic about his students\u2019 high placement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was the highest scoring team I have ever had in my 10 years of competing,\u201d Priest said, noting that, because of the small class size this year, 8 of the 10 students had to prepare two units for the competition, rather than the one unit most other schools\u2019 students were responsible for.<\/p>\n
VWHS scored 1,835 points, out of a possible 2,160, while Findlay had 1,934 points. The score was closer than it appeared, with Findlay averaging 8.95 points out of 10 on each scoring opportunity, while VWHS averaged 8.65 points.<\/p>\n
The contest is conducted in the form of a legislative committee hearing, with students taking the part of experts called in to testify on selected topics. The local AP Government students held a practice last month in the Van Wert County Common Pleas Courtroom in front of judges that included State Senator Cliff Hite (R-1st District) and State Representative Tony Burkley (R-82nd District).<\/p>\n
Priest had nothing but praise for his AP Government students during the competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese students were so impressive today,\u201d he noted. \u201cThe amount of evidence they produced would have impressed most collegiate scholars, and these are high school seniors!<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so very pleased with their performance, and, although many do not get the opportunity to hear them, they made our community proud,\u201d Priest added, noting that VWHS is a highly respected school around Ohio when it comes to civic education.<\/p>\n
The VWHS AP Government teacher also had praise for Findlay\u2019s students.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy hat goes off to Findlay, because as impressed as I was with our kids, Findlay was that much better,\u201d Priest said. \u201cI am confident they will represent Ohio well at the national competition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor COLUMBUS — The AP Government class at Van Wert High School earned an impressive second-place finish in the state \u201cWe the People\u201d competition on Friday, finishing as runner-up to perennial champion Findlay High School in contest, which is held at the Statehouse in Columbus. Bob Priest, teacher of the AP Government class, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 23:15:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}