We, the scholars and staff of the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (GSMST) humbly petition against the school's administrative team's idea to cut out everyone's Intervention period for 48 days (March 3- May 14) and make it a 45 minute class. We kindly request that the administrators continue the intervention period and take out the 45 minutes extra period that you were planning and just add 4 minutes to each period that is being done around the county at other high schools.
We all know GSMST is a very challenging high school and the students and staff deserve a time to rest our minds. Removing the intervention period will bring a plethora of more tension upon the students and faculty. It would make it a very long and rigorous day for them. We all have to commute vigorously in the mornings and afternoons already and clubs and activities are also being extended. Most students who live far away will get home around 6 pm now. This also brings upon another ginormous amount of mental and physical weight. Intervention was the time everyone could lift all these immense burdens off their shoulders. The teenagers of GSMST will get crankier and this will tear down their love for this school. Freshman and sophomores still have a long way to go and it would possibly even make most mad for the rest of their two or three years. That is, if they are still here by then. Juniors and Seniors of this prestigious school would love to leave with a smile.
Removing intervention will not help with any of these presented scenarios. Also, students already in intervention will lose the opportunity to get the extra help they need to pass their classes. GSMST is known to be rigorous, but with also the proper amount of support. Taking intervention away would practically be taking away the support that is keeping a sufficient amount of people on par. We know that the teachers who support this new change think students who do not have intervention just like to cause trouble and fool around. However, this is part of just relaxing. It's not fooling around if people just want to walk around with their friends and have a couple laughs before they have to go through another rough three periods. Nothing illegal is being done, we just want to relax. Intervention rejuvenates the students of GSMST and taking our only glimpse of freedom away will deteriorate the school's community.
Sincerely,
Thing 1 and Thing 2
Updates
February 28, 2014
The administration is finally noticing the pressure because of the flood of support. Post this link on Facebook to keep the momentum going and text three friends to bring them into the fold. Email your rep right now to ensure they know our intervention period is nonnegotiable.
37 Comments
I agree that the administration shouldn't take away intervention, but just tacking on 4 minutes to each class would be detrimental to our education as well. I believe that we should instead have our 20 minutes of intervention and then move on to do the rolling period thing with only 28 minutes. This is a compromise that would both provide the students with intervention time and a good education as well.
Intervention was the only time i got to finish up missing/incomplete classwork!!
Intervention was time to catch up on incomplete assignments. Adding 30 minutes to the school day puts more pressure on us in addition to the fact that we get home later. We are now getting more work, with less time to work. We are the ones up the earliest and home the lastest and with the most work. Now we just have more. The administration without consulting students was irrational decision . A big change like this should at least involve a few students . As someone previously said us the students know how stressful and pressuring it is, not the administrators.
I can't believe that the administration is making decisions without giving the students and the teachers a voice. We are the ones going through GSMST and know what needs to be done not them. The teachers are the ones teaching us and know what they need to do to catch us up. Intervention is one of the best things about this school. Students who are struggling get the help the need and the students aren't get a break to forget about the stress of being at one of the most challenging schools in the USA.
Intervention is time for students that are struggling to get the help they needed and for other students to take a break and free themselves from the stress of being at one of the most challenging highschools in the USA. As the administration i believe you could find a better more efficient way to solve the issue of snow days.
You are doing a grave diservice by canceling this show: It does too much good, and has an extremely far reaching influence to and for viwers. Please don't cancel!!!
this is a good point because the thirty minutes will effect after school activities not to mention that we will be getting home later which will mess up our normal lives. some of these people need to get to bed at a certain time or they will not feel refreshed in the morning. This also means that we have less time to have to ourselves. I say this because we already have a lot of home work so we have to stay up later which means less time to ourselves. I highly recommend that you bring back Intervention. I also agree that you should have just checked that it was OK with at least a few GSMST students before you made this irrational decision and angered the entire student body, and not to mention many teachers are upset with this idea of the rolling schedule. I think that for the sake of the school and the happiness of the student body and some teachers, you should bring back Intervention, and do something else with the extra time. I would suggest that you just add the thirty minutes to first period Monday, then second period Tuesday then third period Wednesday (etc). This would be a better alternative to the idea than the rolling schedule. this would make most if not all of the people in the school happy.
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We, the scholars and staff of the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (GSMST) humbly petition against the school's administrative team's idea to cut out everyone's Intervention period for 48 days (March 3- May 14) and make it a 45 minute class. We kindly request that the administrators continue the intervention period and take out the 45 minutes extra period that you were planning and just add 4 minutes to each period that is being done around the county at other high schools.
We all know GSMST is a very challenging high school and the students and staff deserve a time to rest our minds. Removing the intervention period will bring a plethora of more tension upon the students and faculty. It would make it a very long and rigorous day for them. We all have to commute vigorously in the mornings and afternoons already and clubs and activities are also being extended. Most students who live far away will get home around 6 pm now. This also brings upon another ginormous amount of mental and physical weight. Intervention was the time everyone could lift all these immense burdens off their shoulders. The teenagers of GSMST will get crankier and this will tear down their love for this school. Freshman and sophomores still have a long way to go and it would possibly even make most mad for the rest of their two or three years. That is, if they are still here by then. Juniors and Seniors of this prestigious school would love to leave with a smile.
Removing intervention will not help with any of these presented scenarios. Also, students already in intervention will lose the opportunity to get the extra help they need to pass their classes. GSMST is known to be rigorous, but with also the proper amount of support. Taking intervention away would practically be taking away the support that is keeping a sufficient amount of people on par. We know that the teachers who support this new change think students who do not have intervention just like to cause trouble and fool around. However, this is part of just relaxing. It's not fooling around if people just want to walk around with their friends and have a couple laughs before they have to go through another rough three periods. Nothing illegal is being done, we just want to relax. Intervention rejuvenates the students of GSMST and taking our only glimpse of freedom away will deteriorate the school's community.
Sincerely,
Thing 1 and Thing 2
Updates
February 28, 2014
The administration is finally noticing the pressure because of the flood of support. Post this link on Facebook to keep the momentum going and text three friends to bring them into the fold. Email your rep right now to ensure they know our intervention period is nonnegotiable.
37 Comments
Personally, getting home at 5pm is enough. Now with the extra 30 minutes, I won't get home until 5:30. Intervention helps me to relieve stress and relax a bit before continuing on with my day. Taking this away from the students is only going to make them want to learn less. Please reconsider your idea.
I agree that the administration shouldn't take away intervention, but just tacking on 4 minutes to each class would be detrimental to our education as well. I believe that we should instead have our 20 minutes of intervention and then move on to do the rolling period thing with only 28 minutes. This is a compromise that would both provide the students with intervention time and a good education as well.
Intervention was the only time i got to finish up missing/incomplete classwork!!
Intervention was time to catch up on incomplete assignments. Adding 30 minutes to the school day puts more pressure on us in addition to the fact that we get home later. We are now getting more work, with less time to work. We are the ones up the earliest and home the lastest and with the most work. Now we just have more. The administration without consulting students was irrational decision . A big change like this should at least involve a few students . As someone previously said us the students know how stressful and pressuring it is, not the administrators.
I can't believe that the administration is making decisions without giving the students and the teachers a voice. We are the ones going through GSMST and know what needs to be done not them. The teachers are the ones teaching us and know what they need to do to catch us up. Intervention is one of the best things about this school. Students who are struggling get the help the need and the students aren't get a break to forget about the stress of being at one of the most challenging schools in the USA.
Intervention is time for students that are struggling to get the help they needed and for other students to take a break and free themselves from the stress of being at one of the most challenging highschools in the USA. As the administration i believe you could find a better more efficient way to solve the issue of snow days.
You are doing a grave diservice by canceling this show: It does too much good, and has an extremely far reaching influence to and for viwers. Please don't cancel!!!
this is a good point because the thirty minutes will effect after school activities not to mention that we will be getting home later which will mess up our normal lives. some of these people need to get to bed at a certain time or they will not feel refreshed in the morning. This also means that we have less time to have to ourselves. I say this because we already have a lot of home work so we have to stay up later which means less time to ourselves. I highly recommend that you bring back Intervention. I also agree that you should have just checked that it was OK with at least a few GSMST students before you made this irrational decision and angered the entire student body, and not to mention many teachers are upset with this idea of the rolling schedule. I think that for the sake of the school and the happiness of the student body and some teachers, you should bring back Intervention, and do something else with the extra time. I would suggest that you just add the thirty minutes to first period Monday, then second period Tuesday then third period Wednesday (etc). This would be a better alternative to the idea than the rolling schedule. this would make most if not all of the people in the school happy.
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Personally, getting home at 5pm is enough. Now with the extra 30 minutes, I won't get home until 5:30. Intervention helps me to relieve stress and relax a bit before continuing on with my day. Taking this away from the students is only going to make them want to learn less. Please reconsider your idea.