To whom this may concern,
We, the scholars and staff of the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (GSMST) humbly petition against the school's administrative team's decision to remove the Intervention period for 48 days (March 3- May 14) and make it an extra 45-minute class. We kindly request that the administrative team continue the intervention period and remove the 45 minutes extra period, but rather 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 we the students and staff deserve a time to rest our minds. Removing the intervention period will bring an excess of more tension upon the students and faculty. Implementing this change would make the school day excruciatingly long and rigorous. Most students commute extensively in the mornings and afternoons as it were and now clubs and activities will also be extended. Students who live further distances across the county will now arrive home around 6:00 in the evening. This will, in itself bring upon another immense amount of mental and physical strain. Intervention was the time everyone could lift all these burdens off their shoulders. The teenagers of GSMST will lose morale and this will inevitably shatter their love for our wonderful school. Freshmen and sophomores still have a ways to go and it would possibly even make most of them feel cantankerous about their remaining years at GSMST. Juniors and seniors of this prestigious school would love to leave with a sense of pride as well as a smile. Removing intervention will not help with any of these presented scenarios.
On another note, students who are required to take an intervention class 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 removing 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 take joy in causing trouble and fooling around; however, I would argue that this is part of just relaxing. Intervention rejuvenates the students of GSMST and taking our only glimpse of freedom away will deteriorate the school's community, and the pride we currently feel as current students. Please consider this most sincere and urgent request.
Kind Regards,
Students of GSMST
Updates
February 28, 2014
The momentum is undeniable. It is clear that the need for intervention is felt by everyone in this building.
Reached 100 supporters
February 28, 2014
41 Comments
Given that GSMST has a rigouruos curriculum I donot believe that the removal of intervention will help any of the students, failing or not, or teachers. Intervention is an essential part of the school day where help can be administered to students either by other students or their teachers. It is a time to relax or catch up. Without intervention the school day wold be more stressful even for the smartest of students. This is why WE NEED INTERVENTION.
Intervention was the part of the day that I looked forward to the most... even more than lunch. I would be in class taking notes on the most monotonous thing imaginable and think to myself "Hey, keep working hard.. after this, you have intervention and you can finally take a short break.
I believe we need intervention back. Intervention gives you time and a little break from school. Intervention is a time to work with your teachers if you're failing or just chill and hang out with friends. Without this time, student won't get a break. Instead of ending intervention we should do make a compromise in order to keep intervention, but still have this roll along period.
I believe this time is very important to give to the students of GSMST. For one, with the workload given to students and after school activities, this time gives us social time with friends. In addition, students can seek academic help during intervention. If not for intervention, students and teachers would have to stay after school for academic help with their courses. Even though extra time will be added to the courses, doesn't mean we will understand the material, so it is important to give us this time to seek help.
There are multiple ways to get back our school days besides completely eradicating our intervention. Having the rigorous curriculum of GSMST for nearly 8 hours straight is too much on the students.
I would like to know who is actually wasting this much time on this account.
Seriously, if you want to be taken seriously at all stop playing around, this is serious, and who ever is messing around, if they see that do you really think they'll do anything about this? No, all you'd do is anger them and they'll cancel it for sure,so thanks, you might just be the reason that it actually will be taken away next year. We don't have time here for people who aren't going to be serious.
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To whom this may concern,
We, the scholars and staff of the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (GSMST) humbly petition against the school's administrative team's decision to remove the Intervention period for 48 days (March 3- May 14) and make it an extra 45-minute class. We kindly request that the administrative team continue the intervention period and remove the 45 minutes extra period, but rather 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 we the students and staff deserve a time to rest our minds. Removing the intervention period will bring an excess of more tension upon the students and faculty. Implementing this change would make the school day excruciatingly long and rigorous. Most students commute extensively in the mornings and afternoons as it were and now clubs and activities will also be extended. Students who live further distances across the county will now arrive home around 6:00 in the evening. This will, in itself bring upon another immense amount of mental and physical strain. Intervention was the time everyone could lift all these burdens off their shoulders. The teenagers of GSMST will lose morale and this will inevitably shatter their love for our wonderful school. Freshmen and sophomores still have a ways to go and it would possibly even make most of them feel cantankerous about their remaining years at GSMST. Juniors and seniors of this prestigious school would love to leave with a sense of pride as well as a smile. Removing intervention will not help with any of these presented scenarios.
On another note, students who are required to take an intervention class 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 removing 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 take joy in causing trouble and fooling around; however, I would argue that this is part of just relaxing. Intervention rejuvenates the students of GSMST and taking our only glimpse of freedom away will deteriorate the school's community, and the pride we currently feel as current students. Please consider this most sincere and urgent request.
Kind Regards,
Students of GSMST
Updates
February 28, 2014
The momentum is undeniable. It is clear that the need for intervention is felt by everyone in this building.
Reached 100 supporters
February 28, 2014
41 Comments
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.
Given that GSMST has a rigouruos curriculum I donot believe that the removal of intervention will help any of the students, failing or not, or teachers. Intervention is an essential part of the school day where help can be administered to students either by other students or their teachers. It is a time to relax or catch up. Without intervention the school day wold be more stressful even for the smartest of students. This is why WE NEED INTERVENTION.
Intervention was the part of the day that I looked forward to the most... even more than lunch. I would be in class taking notes on the most monotonous thing imaginable and think to myself "Hey, keep working hard.. after this, you have intervention and you can finally take a short break.
I believe we need intervention back. Intervention gives you time and a little break from school. Intervention is a time to work with your teachers if you're failing or just chill and hang out with friends. Without this time, student won't get a break. Instead of ending intervention we should do make a compromise in order to keep intervention, but still have this roll along period.
I believe this time is very important to give to the students of GSMST. For one, with the workload given to students and after school activities, this time gives us social time with friends. In addition, students can seek academic help during intervention. If not for intervention, students and teachers would have to stay after school for academic help with their courses. Even though extra time will be added to the courses, doesn't mean we will understand the material, so it is important to give us this time to seek help.
There are multiple ways to get back our school days besides completely eradicating our intervention. Having the rigorous curriculum of GSMST for nearly 8 hours straight is too much on the students.
I would like to know who is actually wasting this much time on this account.
Seriously, if you want to be taken seriously at all stop playing around, this is serious, and who ever is messing around, if they see that do you really think they'll do anything about this? No, all you'd do is anger them and they'll cancel it for sure,so thanks, you might just be the reason that it actually will be taken away next year. We don't have time here for people who aren't going to be serious.
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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.