Independence

When in the course of student events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the disciplinary bands which connect them to the administration, to be free from the obligation of waking up at the hour of 6 on a weekday and having to do additional work after attending middle school for more than 8 hours a day, five days a week.

We feel that is our basic right, to get the full requirement of sleep needed to be healthy and awake for the classes we are forced to attend. The administration has violated out rights for the most part, by dragging us out of our beds to attend a class half awake and upset. Ergo, the students of the school would be uptight toward teachers and other students at this school. With them being so agitated, they can not comprehend what the happy go lucky teacher is attempting to teach. As for the endless piles of work we have to to complete before the next seven hours, and maybe even before, we need our health to be well as growing teenagers, and skipping out on dinner could result in fatigue and reluctance to do the homework assigned. As a student, we should not have any homework after the hours of school because it is the instructor's job to teach us the exact lesson and not have to make us review that night.

Marymount has deprived us of our rights by taking away the privilege we have of sleeping when we want and waking up refreshed and ready to start the tortuous school day ahead of us. As a result, the students have not had a proper meal since starting middle school. With the meaningless amount of homework we have, the students are completely submerged in the sinuous waves called school. And if it was not a struggle already to wake up any day knowing that the day is going to be filled with dreadful exertions.