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1. Stop Sagging 
Students both female and male should not have to see another students underwear above the belt. Your underwear were made to wear under your clothes. Not to been seen in a blatantly manner.
You can have swag without flashing the whole student body. This was not created to stop students from having a sense of fashion/style, swagger, having fun , or the freedom to dress however they want. Many say they sag for "Comfort." If you want comfort buy jeans that are comfortable that aren't on your knees.
Students should respect themselves and others. Help stop sagging in our school!
2. Save Lives, Stop Bullying in Australian Schools
Bullying is an ongoing issue in schools, and is one of the greatest dangers children face, with at least one in four children reporting being bullied at school. In our culture, bullying is stigmatized so that Children often feel ashamed to seek help or even tell anyone they are being bullied, for fear of being a burden on families and communities. As a result the breadth of the issue goes un-recognised.
Children's voices are not loud enough to demand their own basic rights, which are that it is every child's right to be free from physical or mental harm, and to receive an education which enables them to reach their potential, and prepares them for life in a free society, in the spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, equality of the sexes and friendship among all peoples (from the UN Charter). Bullying denies children of their right to life. It has been the cause of countless suicides, including that of Sheniz Erkan who died as a result of cyber-bullying in January this year.
The effects of bullying are wide ranging. Children who are bullied are three times more likely to develop depressive symptoms and nine times more likely to have thoughts of suicide. Victims of bullying are more likely to develop psychotic symptoms in early adolescence and young people who bully others are four times more likely to have a criminal record by the age of 30.
This shows how Bullying has devastating affects on the welfare of individuals and likely inhibits their developing identity and contribution to society.
3. Family/School/Community Compacts to help students
Money to improve school performance has focused mainly on course curriculum, instructional methods and teacher training, little has changed.
We need to encourage our policy makers to look beyond the curriculum and teachers to improve a child’s education achievement. The Family/School/Community Compacts Bill (HOUSE BILL 695) proposes that schools and parents make a pact as to what each will do to make sure students are getting the most from the free public school system.
This will be a written agreement stating how parents, students, teachers, principals, and other school staff members will be accountable for student learning. Every student will have a family-school compact.
4. Access Codes College Should Pay For
Since the Internet is becoming more dominate in the classroom, students are forced to buy access codes to get information, grades, homework, and messages sent to them from their teachers.
With the money spent toward education, these extra features should be given to students.
5. Pedestrian Crosswalk for the Intersection of Arlington Ave and West 21st Street
A new school has just been built and open for session early this year, you would taught the city of los angeles would notice that and put in a pedestrian crosswalk for the safety of children going and coming out of school.
Parents have to be dodging cars in the busy mornings and afternoon dropping off and picking up their children from school. THIS BUSY INTERSECTION IS LOCATED AT WEST 21ST STREET AND ARLINGTON AVE IN THE 90018 ZIPSODE.
6. Stop school consolidation at Shawnee District 84
This petition is designed to let the school board of Shawnee District #84 know that we do not believe it is in the best interest of the children, ages kindergarten through 5th grade, to be moved from the current elementary schools and placed in Wolf Lake.
7. Uncensor SDUSD School Internet Acess
The SDUSD administration is blocking more and more educational websites on its Internet-access system.
These sites include YouTube, Flickr, many computer-technology sights, all blogs they can find, and most forum sites.
8. Give Students an extra day off
Students should have the right of an extra day off on weekends or no homework and tests due the next day. The weekends are suppressed to be breaks, but students keep receiving homework assignments on Friday preventing them from having a day off, and this petition is not geared towards a lecture on time management.
9. Save Children from Back-Packs and Back Problems
My son, like so many children who attend schools where they're forced to carry heavy Back-packs for the simple reason, the schools do not want the trouble of buffing the floors every summer when school lets out, due to wheel marks.
What's more Important? Where is the justice? What or Who does this ban really hurt in the long run? Try an increase in disability.
10. STOP THE BANNING OF "I <3 BOOBIES" AWARENESS BRACELETS
My baby sister was recently SUSPENDED from Lamar Middle School Lamar School District RE2, for wearing a "I <3 BOOBIES" bracelet, supporting breast cancer awareness among the younger crowd. She was sent home crying because they would not allow her to wear it.
Awareness means a lot to her and my entire family, if it wasn't for my mother being aware and getting checked last minute, her breast cancer would have been over looked and taken her life. She survived it, and we support the awareness in any which way possible.
Please help me petition to stop the banning of these awareness bracelets across the U.S. its unneeded censorship!!!
11. Less Homework for School Children
Children across Australia, from as young as six years old are bringing home school work.
Some schools are giving students over two hours of homework each week night and more on weekends.
Children and youth are attending school for six hours a day. When you calculate their homework load on top of that they are working the equivalent of an average adult working day, somtimes more. This is stopping many of them from pursuing childhood activities like playing while it is still light outside, social activities, sports and participating in quality family time.
Then there is the addition of performance anxiety when doing assessment and assignment tasks and exam stress throughout high school.
The unrealistic workload for children and high expectations to perform academically for youth is having an emotional and psychologic effect on them and their families.
12. Convert School buses to CNG
School buses are an enormous cost for schools across the United States. When we convert buses to CNG it will decrease taxes and improve the learning environment of all children.
CNG for school buses will create cleaner air than buses previously running on diesel gas.
13. Raising Awareness in Results of A Closed-Campus
Due to the recent change from being an open to a closed-campus, there have been many issues that have arisen to the students and/or staffs attention. Including but not limited to crowding of the halls, longer lunch lines, also misbehaviour issues.
14. Freeport School District Uniforms - Opposing
As all Freeport public school students and parents are aware, the district is taking away our freedom of dress.
Please sign this petition which will be sent to the Freeport school district if you are against this.
Thank you.
15. Allow Sophomores to Go to Prom
This year Corydon Central High School has passed a resolution that students in 9th and 10th grade are not allowed to attend the prom.
This unfairly excludes a large portion of the student population.
In the news 29/06/11, it has been revealed that a school which successfully brings life management and judicial skills to kids with behavioural problems, putting them on the right track, is to be CLOSED!
17. Save Warrane Primary School
The Tasmanian Labor Party wishes to close down this vital part of our growing community to reclaim money that was over spent whilst being in government.
Warrane Primary School is located on Cambridge Road in spacious grounds and has a long and Proud tradition of serving the educational needs of families from Warrane, Mornington and Flagstaff Gully. The campus has long been seen as a Centre of Learning in the area with Adult Education and the University of the Third Age being co-located within the school grounds. Whilst considerably smaller now, than in past years, the current enrolment of 149 students allows for a full range of educational and social programs in a supportive and pastoral environment.
Warrane has currently undergone a refurbishment of all classrooms. This has provided the whole school with modern state of the art teaching and learning spaces. Combine this with small class numbers, an exceptionally skilled teaching staff and varied specialist programs including Music, Physical Education and Japanese, and an excellent learning environment exists at Warrane Primary. Our school community strongly believes that the teaching of Literacy and Numeracy is everyone's responsibility.
Our programs feature an emphasis on one to one student intervention in the early childhood years with programs like Reading Recovery and "Bridges". Teacher assistants and senior staff are utilised in all classes during our ""Literacy Block"" to lower the teacher-pupil ratio ensuring effective teaching and learning for all students. This has been enhanced by Warrane Primary School continued participation in the Raising the Bar, Closing the Gap state government initiative. The addition of an Assistant Principal and a specialist literacy team to the school's leadership team further enhances the school's ability to keep class sizes lower and deliver a quality educational program to all students.
Early intervention and building solid relationships with families before their children reach school age continues to be high priority. Launching into Learning activities for the 0–4 age group continue to be highly successful.
Warrane Primary continues to strive towards providing an inviting, safe and nurturing physical environment for students. The major infrastructure program include the refurbishment of both primary end early childhood playgrounds under the "Pride in our Schools" program and the Library, Music and Administration redevelopments under the "Building the Education Revolution" program. It is considered the HUB of our community located within walking distance for around 80% of our students Keep our SCHOOL OPEN and keep our community CONNECTED.
18. Save Westbury Primary School
Westbury Primary School was established in 1839. TheTasmanian Labor Party wishes to close down this vital part of our growing community to reclaim money they have over spent while being in government
19. Stop Tasmanian Catholic school funding cuts
The Tasmanian Government announced in the 2011 - 2012 State budget that it intends to directly cut funding to Tasmanian Catholic schools by 5%.
Further to this, because the Tasmanian Department of Education is facing significant budget cuts as a whole, the flow on effect to Tasmanian Catholic schools will potentially be ANOTHER 5%.
This means parents, grandparents and carers may face significant school fee increases.
This could amount to 10 - 14% school fee INCREASES in real terms.
Please support the Tasmanian Catholic Parents and Friends Federation by sending a clear message to the Tasmanian Minister for Education and Skills, Hon. Nick McKim that breaking the funding agreement (1998) on state support to the Tasmanian Catholic education sector is not only UNFAIR it will be political suicide for both Labor and the Greens.
Parents that send their children to a Catholic school actually save the Tasmanian government $5512 based on recurrent expenditure per student (Report on Government Services 2007 - 08).
Fee increases this significant could result in potentially Catholic school families moving their children to the State school system, creating even great financial strain on the Department of Education.
Damian von Samorzewski
President
Tasmanian Catholic School Parents & Friends Federation
www.tcspff.org.au
20. Save Franklin Primary School
Franklin Primary School has a proud and rich history. It is the pride of the Huon and has been around for 150 years. The school is highly respected and well known for its energetic, hard-working energetic students and teachers and its famous big tree.
It has received numerous grants to upgrade its library, administration office, main entrance and foyer. The upgraded area received the People's Choice Award in the 2011 Tasmanian Architecture Awards. It has also built a large shade area in line with with the schools sun smart policy and just recently installed new play equipment. The school has established a sail training program and it won a District (Hartz) Award in 2003 "in recognition of a successful volunteer partnership between the school, the Living Boat Trust and the community."
The school has had an ongoing relationship for many years with the local aged care facility where young and old get together regularly enriching both their lives.
21. Review parking at Rivermead Primary School
The unadopted access road to Rivermead School has become a dangerous environment for the children at school opening and closing times.
Having carried out several observations of the movements of traffic and children at these times and witnessing some near misses, it is clear that for the safety of the children, that traffic should be prohibited at these times.
22. Gabby's Law for School Bus Stop Safety
Every day, twice a day through out the school year our children stand beside busy roads waiting for the school bus without any safety measures to warn motorists. In Florida alone 3-7 children are killed annually at their school bus stops.
The school districts rely solely on the school bus being at the stop for bus stop safety, but until the bus arrives our children are vulnerable. Since Gabrielle (Gabby) Mair's death on June 1, 2010, four other children have been killed at their bus stop waiting for the bus and after the bus left.
Warning signs for motorist as to the location of the bus stop with temporary reduced speedlimit on roadways with speedlimits greater than 25 MPH would eliminate or greatly reduce the needless tragic deaths.
23. Petition for CHAMPS Democratic Process for Nomination and Election of Board of Directors
CHAMPS Charter High School, Van Nuys, Ca.
[Important Note - When signed anonymously your name and info will not be shown to anyone other than the Petition Administrator and possibly a Notary Public for verification purposes. *Petition Administrator]
To implement the Democratic Process for Nomination and Election of CHAMPS Board of Directors with representation of all stakeholder groups as provided in the CHAMPS charter and bylaws.
Explanation:
It is understood that the acting Board of Directors efforts have been with the best of intent. Those efforts are greatly appreciated by all stakeholder groups. However, it has become apparent that as the school achieves the necessary growth that insures its longevity, that the governing role proportionately becomes broader in spectrum and demands a broader view from the diverse perspectives of all stakeholder groups.
It is the goal of this petition to motivate actions that will ultimately lead to increased transparency, communication, checks and balances, accountability, and a broad overall view in respect to the governance of CHAMPS.
This can best be served by following provisions in the Charter and Bylaws as outlined below:
24. Save Malabar Riding School and ANZAC Rifle Range
Finance Minister Penny Wong, wants to close down the ANZAC Rifle Range and Malabar Riding School.
Keep History!
Keep our kids local activities alive!
Keep local small business and jobs alive!
Help us save our local Riding school and Rifle Range.
Please write your name, address, phone number or email address and signature below.
IMPORTANT:
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We thank those who have made the effort to sign this petition as it has raised awareness; however, we will need everyone to resign the approved petition so that we can submit it to Parliament.
The petition can be found on facebook "Save Our Horses"or email donna.rick@bigpond.com to request a copy.
25. Keep Prince Philip Elementary School Open in Ainslie Wood
Prince Philip Elementary School is an integral part of the Ainslie Wood neighbourhood.
We deeply believe the best interests of its students are served by keeping the school open.
26. Newly Elected Board for Island Education
Dear Friends,
Over the last few years, we’ve experienced many changes in our children's education. Now, we're starting to understand the consequences and its effects to our Island children. The consequences include but are not limited to:
* Island children having the lowest academic scores in Canada.
* An on-going battle with kindergarten children on buses with older aged children;
* An increasing number of children on buses for longer periods of time;
* Classroom over crowding;
* School closures due to poorly maintained buildings;
* Exorbitant amounts of money being spent to maintain old schools and build new ones without studies or planning;
* The demise of an elected board; and
* Schools closures.
I ask you: can it get any worse?
Well, I fear it's about to. Island children have only ONE voice, a provincially- appointed official who is a representative of the voices that have caused the deterioration of our education system.
We need to work together. We have to call on our elected officials to change legislation right away. The Eastern School District (ESD) needs to have an elected board put in place as soon as possible.
Please join me and other community members and parents by signing this petition. We will present this petition to the Ghiz Government and Minister Currie.
I've spoke to a lot of you, and would love to speak to more of you. If you have further questions please feel free to email (martiemurphy@gmail.com) or call me directly 629-5125.
As a community member and a parent I'm concerned. I need your help to make the changes we need to get our education system back on track. Please feel free to forward the petition to friends, family and community members. We need to work together to have the changes made.
Thanks so much,
Martie Murphy
President Rural Alliance
27. Reward the IB Sophomores for the Garden!
Last year, the freshman students enrolled in the IB/MYP program at Atlantic Community High School were assigned with a task altogether to help grow the school garden and grow produce to donate to food charities.
The students who worked on this garden were also promised to attain Community Service hours for working on the garden. After speaking to many of my fellow students we have all agreed this is reasonable.
28. Stop Icknield High School becoming an Academy
On 31st March Icknield High School in Luton began a consultation to convert to Academy status. This will take the school out of Local Authority control.
This will make the school undemocratic, and open to be sold to the highest bidder. Local Authorities, which have democratic structures, are best placed to run schools.
29. SAVE BANCROFT
The EMSB wants to close Bancroft Elementary to "offer the best we can give them in terms of an educational experience". Give me a break! Bancroft has been part of Montreal for generations and for good reason.
Not only are we the only school located in front of the biggest green space in Montreal but academics take a front seat. With an intense english and french program and so many extra-curricular activities I can proudly say that we are offering them the best in terms of an educational experience.
And with the most dedicated teaching staff I know these children are growing morally and emotionally in an atmosphere of cooperation and support. There is no choice.
BANCROFT NEEDS TO STAY OPEN!
WE DID IT!!!!!! BANCROFT WILL STAY OPEN!!!!
Thanks to every single person who helped. We couldn't have done it without everyone on board.
30. Against the Massive Teacher Layoffs in California
Over 19,000 layoff notices were given to teachers throughout the state of California, a state that has seen periods of crisis similar to such before. An Educational cut of this magnitude will effect classrooms throughout the state substantially.
"These current cuts are sure to push us further down the scale. Our future depends on our ability to prepare the next generation for success in the hyper-competitive global economy. The budget crisis and the teacher layoffs we are now witnessing makes that challenge much, much harder. In order to deliver the quality education our students need we must get off this budget roller coaster and find a stable, long-term solution to education funding. Our future depends on it."
Jack O'Connell- State Superintendent of Public Instruction
