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751. Let's reduce School to four hours a day M-F 
School is hard. It causes pain, stress, suicide, death, confusion, etc. But stopping it is senseless because it cannot happen. 7 hours however is too long, shouldn't it be more like 4 hours? Why not?
752. NBS Petition - help the National Ballet School
Hello! We are a group of grade sixes from the National Ballet School. All of our dreams are to become a ballet dancer. The National Ballet School is trying to build a new school for the staff and students, but are short of money. We are trying to raise a total of 56 million dollars.
We are competing with the ROM and an Art Gallery for money from the government. We really need this. Our current school's change rooms are disgusting. They have rats, ants, cockroaches, and the tiles are coming off. Once this year there was an over flow of sewage that leaked onto the floor. The cafeteria is very small. There are 150 students in our school, and there is only about 10 tables in the cafeteria (only 4 people are allowed to a table). The classrooms are very old. People who have allergies struggle to concentrate (e.g. mold). The bathrooms are filled with spiders. IT'S DISGUSTING!!
a petition that shen students should sign to try to get the school board to let the kids wear bandanas
754. Give Middle School Students Their Rights
Please sign this petition to give us kids back our rights. Because on Feb.21, 2002 a police officer beat up a boy in school for no reason and mased him and the crowd so help us stand up for our rights!
A survey has shown that the majority of Pokemon books are bought via Scholastic book orders. Many children's minds will not be further contaminated if this petition passes.
756. The Way Teachers and Principals Teach Our Children
A lot of our schools are run amock. Teachers, Principles, Guidance Counselors, etc don't know how to understand our children. They see them the way they want to. And if your child's grades stay low, they try and lable them or say they don't pay attention. Some teachers physically touch our children and get away with it because of their Teacher Contract. Some authoritive figures in our school just get sick of handling our children and recommend them to quit school. All authoritive figures in our schools should have to have further education themselves to learn how to understand our children. And with such large classes, our children having problems with grades don't get the extra help they need.
Our schools and their educational teachers need a deeper,thorough examination. All for our children's sakes. And only 3 minutes in between classes to go to lockers and get books is outrageous! Then when they are late, they get detention! What good is this teaching our children? Somebody help our children. They are the next generation and our future authoritive figures!
757. Support Implementation of AB 540 at the University of California (UC)
AB 540 is a bill that was signed in October 2001 by Governor Gray Davis, which allows undocumented students to receive in-state tuition in California State Universities and Community Colleges. Students need to meet the following criteria:
1)Students must have attended a California High School for at least three (3) years;
2)Student must have graduated from a California High School;
3)Students must submit an affidavit stating that they have filed, or will file, for legal residency status to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
In the original bill presented to Governor Gray Davis, there was a clause that stated that students meeting the specified criteria would also be able to receive federal and state financial aid. However, in order for the Governor to approve the bill, this clause was removed.
It has already been acknowledged by the U.S. Supreme Court that undocumented students are likely to remain in the U.S. and contribute to the economy and society (Plyler vs. Doe). The adversity these students have had to overcome and their diverse backgrounds offer richness and depth to the quality of the educational experience at the UC system, so why shouldn't undocumented students have access to institutions of higher education such as UCLA? Failure to apply AB 540 at the UC, would contradict the basic belief that education is a human right.
Currently, the bill does not apply to the University of California system. In order for AB 540 to be implemented at the University of California level, the UC Regents (the governing board of the University of California) need to vote YES during the January 16-17, 2002 UC Regents Meeting at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
758. Don't force kids to go to school
Nobody likes school. I'm sure we'd all rather play video games. I say school becomes optional, not legally required!
759. Teaching Differences in Political Parties in School
When young people reach the age to vote, they often register and vote one way or the other, just because their parents or peers told them how to register and how to vote. I believe that views of the different political parties should be taught in school, so that when these kids reach the age to vote they will be more knowledgeable and will know why they are voting one way or the other.
They should learn not to necessarily go along with their race, ethnic group, religion, etc, but register and vote their conscious, truly understanding the potential consequences of their "vote".
760. Sonja
By signing this petition I agree and support the fact that Sonja should be able to stay in the United States of America at least until January. This way Sonja would be able to finish the first semester. If Sonja were to go back know it would interrupt with her education. All of us thought that Sonja's organization sent students here to experience what it is like in America. By making her go back this November she would be missing out on homecoming at her school and she wouldn't get to experience Christmas in America either.
761. Athiesm In School
To make us know, and not to hide what the truth is.
762. Allow a DDR Tournament at HMS for 2001-2002
Please sign if you want a DDR tournament to be held at Huntington Middle School.
We, the students of DeSoto High School, request that the Administration reconsider the proposed policy change with respect to locker assignments for next year. We would like the seniors to be assigned to the traditional senior hallway, the sophomores and juniors to the main hall and the freshmen to the traditional freshmen hall way.
Some reasons include tradition, feeling a sense of accomplishment once you pass from the other lockers to the senior hall, and will also promote class spirit.
764. Allow Michael Bell back to Langwarrin Secondary College
Hi my name is Michael Bell. I was a student at Langwarrin Secondary College and i'm in yr 9. I left Langwarrin secondary college to go to Cairns and i went to school at trinity bay high school and stayed up their for about 5 months passing my yr and then i decided to move back in melbounre to langwarrin secondary college. I went to that school all my teenage yrs and met alot of people. I had a meeting with Mr. Read on wednesday 17 and during that meeting he said that he wouldn't accept me because of the people i hang around with and what i did after school. I have been away from school for about a month.
Please help me out to get back into Langwarrin secondary college. THANKs ALOT.
school address Langwarrin Secondary College
80 Warrandyte Road
Langwarrin, Vic. 3910
Phone: 9789 7188
Fax: 9789 1025
765. Release Joyce Bell from employment with Dare County Schools as Manteo Highschool Bus Driver
We the students of Manteo High School, hereby request the removal of Joyce Bell from the Manteo High School Bus Driver Position. All of the undersigned students feel that our Constitutional and Civil Rights are being violated, as well as the safety guidlines that all bus drivers must follow in transporting each of us to and from school each day.
We are being denied fair and humane treatment while riding to and from school on her bus #48 as required by state law. Students are being sworn at, yelled at, she will jam on the breaks of the bus to get the attention of students, which has already caused significant harm and injuries to a few of the students that are daily passengers.
She uses extreme profanity with the students, especially the boys, in a sexually harassing way. We the students of Manteo High School deserve a safe and pleasant ride to and from school each day without fear, and without feeling verbally abused during our daily rides. We are continuously late in getting home to our families because she will pull off onto the side of the road, (does not matter where)which sometimes puts us all in danger of being hit by another vehicle. She has gotton angry with some students and has made them get off the bus to walk home. From Manteo to the beach is a long haul, and we do not appreciate her treating us this way.
Our parents pay towns, and county taxes in order to provide money to pay the salaries of the bus driver's as well as several school officials at the Board's level on down to the custodians. We all are under the age of Eighteen, and feel that our complaints as well as our parents complaints are falling on deaf ears.
This petition is to serve as documentation of our treatment by this woman, and to open the school boards eyes and ears. We want action taken now! Before anyone else's rights are violated,or we get into an accident or worse, this woman needs to be removed and released from her position.
Respectfully Yours,
The Students of Manteo High School Bus #48
766. Prayer and Bible reading back in school
After Prayer and Bible reading were taken out of school, our country has suffered. Now more than ever do we need prayer and biblereading back in our public schools. I hope that everybody feels the same way. WE NEED GOD BACK IN AMERICA.
767. Get rid of Bear across from school at Miami East North
Our children have a right to go to school without having to worry about a brown bear getting loose and hurting them.
768. Bring Youth Wrestling To Chesterfield County Middle Schools
Please take the time to read and sign our petition to have youth wrestling instated into the Chesterfield County athletics program. It is our attempt to collect as many signatures as possible, to present these signatures to the county school board as a show of support for wrestling in our middle schools.
What effect can wrestling have on our children's character development? Success factors in sports, or anything for that matter, are part God-given (i.e. height and size) and part acquired (i.e. endurance).
Success in wrestling depends most on acquired factors, and unlike most other sports, wrestling does not favor athletes of any particular height, size, weight, muscle type, race or social class, and does not rely on superior vision or hearing. Wrestlers learn, by the nature of the sport, that long-term success has much more to do with the investment made than the 'natural' gifts one is given. Wrestlers learn the value of reparation and hard work, and the role it plays in achieving one's goals. Wrestling provides real-life experiences that build and strengthen character.
Is wrestling a dangerous sport? There is a common misperception among the non-wrestling public that wrestling is a very dangerous sport. Perhaps it's the aggressive nature of the sport, association with 'Pro Wrestling', or perhaps fear of the unknown. Several studies have been conducted in recent years that show wrestling to be safer than many more common sports including football, ice hockey and gymnastics. Most notable in these reports, is wrestling's low percentage of serious, permanent and life-threatening injury in relation to other sports. A quote from USA Wrestling Club Organizing Guide has the following to say
about Risk of Injury: In summary, of the many sports your child can participate in, wrestling is perhaps the most misrepresented, misunderstood, and underrated. The ratio of participation to public awareness is remarkably lopsided. Each year hundreds of thousands of kids participate in this sport, yet the average person knows as much about wrestling as they might know about rugby or polo -- which combined, involve far fewer athletes.
769. Against PTA's promoting film "That's a Family."
May 04, 2001
Numerous groups appear to be joining the crusade to push the homosexual agenda in the nation's public schools. Now National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) President Ginny Markell said her organization would be making available a video which embraces same-sex families as part of a nationwide effort to fight discrimination against homosexuals.
The video is from Debra Chasnoff and Helen Cohen, the same producers of It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School, a 1996 film that stirred controversy in communities across the nation. However, while the latter was aimed at teachers and school administrators, That's a Family! is intended to be shown directly to children.
As in It's Elementary, Chasnoff and Cohen use the same strategy in their new film: using children to make the case for the acceptance of homosexuality.
770. Change conflicting policies between Religion and School at ESD
For those unfamiliar with the faith of Islam, one of the many traditions followed by believers of this faith is to grow the beard at fist length (from the chin), and to trim the hair around the upper lip and face. Several passages and sayings (Qu'rran, Hadith),
dictate this as divine law. Recently, a young man of Islamic faith reached the age at which it was deemed appropriate for him to carry out this expression faith. Knowing the school's policy of "no facial hair", he very considerately wrote a letter to several
members of the administration, asking for permission to grow his beard to fist length. He was turned down.
Some would argue that an Episcopalian school reserves the right to deny non-Christian forms of religious expression. However, ESD has chosen, of their own volition, to admit students of non-Christian faith to the school.
The following is a verbatim copy of the mission statement of the Episcopal School of Dallas, which appears on the first page of the 2000-01 edition of the ESD Student Handbook: "The Episcopal School of Dallas, a college preparatory school, is a spiritual community whose mission is to educate young people having A VARIETY OF BACKGROUNDS AND APTITUDES [my emphasis]. The school is a co-educational, faith-centered environment, with a strong academic and extra-curricular program that ENCOURAGES STUDENTS TO DISCOVER THEIR FULL POTENTIAL SPIRITUALLY, INTELLECTUALLY, AND PHYSICALLY. [my emphasis]"
By printing the above text on the first page of the student handbook, ESD has professed to encourage students of different faiths to attend their school, and to strengthen their relationship with God. We see forms of religious expression around us every day at school.
To allow Christians and Jews to express their faith using the previously mentioned religious symbols, while restricting Muslims from growing a beard, ESD has restricted members of a particular faith the freedom to express themselves in ways similar to those
that their Jewish and Christian brothers and sisters do.
Furthermore, by publishing the aforementioned mission statement, while at the same time denying a student his own ways of "discover [himself]spiritually", The Episcopal School of Dallas has shown it's true diversity... or lack thereof. Please sign this
petition to support this Muslim student in his fight for religious expression in a "diverse" school.
771. Old School Board For AFR Member
Old School Is The Best, why not just talk about it.