My Declaration Of Indpendence Essay, Research Paper

Declaration of Independence

When in the course of school, it becomes necessary for me and the

Student Body to dissolve the restrictive bands which have connected

them with another, and to assume the powers of the earth, the separate

and equal station to which the laws of the governed and the rights

endowed to them, a decent respect to the opinions of me and my class

mates.

I and the Student Body hold these truths to be self-evident, that

school is created for our purposes, that are endowed by are rights in the

constitution with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life,

liberty from school, and the pursuit to do as we wish. That to secure

these rights governments (School board) made are instituted by

students and not that of the School board; so that students can derive

their own School Board, laying its foundation on such principles and

organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to

effect their Happiness and Freedom. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that

School boards long established should not be changed for the light and

transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that

Students are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to

right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

That whatever a school board becomes destructive of these ends it is the

Right of the Students to alter it or abolish it.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these students; and such is

now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former System of

School. The history of the present School Board is a history of repeated

injuries and usurpation s all having in direct object the establishment of

an absolute School Board over us Students.

To prove this, this is a list of the usurpation s that the School

Board has committed:

The sleep that is lost from homework such as this and therefore

leading to bad health and a magnitude of other problems.

The stress that is continually put on Students to do good on tests

or projects, which are the deciding factor when you get down to it that

allow us to either go to college or not.

The constant barrage of work such as; homework, class work and

projects adding to an hour a night per class, that is eight hours of work

every two days.

The time spent working on such things like homework could be

spent seeing the world, learning about new things and meeting new

people.

The fun will be increased by not having to do the random school

tasks which dog us every night.

The accumulation of less stress, less work, and less school will

equal a prolonged life.

The fact that two days of in one week doubles the stress

tremendously.

The School Board has refused repeatedly to let Students

themselves set on the board and let our voices be herd.

The School Board has changed rules time and again despite our

repeated requests to stop it.

For cutting our fun off for the homecoming parade with new

rules.

For making rallies before lunch instead of after so that some 20

students don t leave.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have petitioned for

redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been

answered only by repeated injury.

The Student Body of High School and I , in general congress,

assembled, appealing to the School Board and The governor of

California of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the

People of the Student Body, solemnly publish and declare, that the

Student body are and ought to be free of 5 day weeks. And for the

Support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of the

divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other are lives, our

minds, and our sacred honor to combat the evils which have been

committed against us.