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thoughtformed2013-10-31 03:40 pm
notjohnsmith) wrote in thoughtformed2013-10-31 03:40 pm
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An Open Letter to the New Moore Public School System:
Over the past twenty-two months, I feel that I’ve become a hardened veteran of the vagaries and exigencies of life in New Moore. Over that same span of time, I hope that school faculty and administrators have come to know me well enough to testify that I’m not the sort to find meaningless excuses to avoid schoolwork. In fact, my dedication to extracurricular activities means I’ve had to go far out of my way to avoid absences, so that my participation would be permitted. The penalties for missing a day are far more severe than anything levied by the school, and the consequences more dire than facing up to even something as serious as a meningitis scare.
With that in mind, please take the following proposal seriously: during upsetting anomalies, even if it’s impractical to cancel school, please treat all unexpected absences as excused. It might be impractical to take a drastic step like erasing school vacations to schedule them at the drop of a metaphysical hat, but short of that it has to be argued that during such creative reversals of the natural order, students might have any manner of reasons for incomplete attendance, many of which are left better unexplained, but nonetheless solid in their validity. Whatever steps are required to institute this change, even with only seven months until my graduation, I’ll gladly undertake them. Fill out paperwork, distribute a petition, lobby the school board or even run for a seat myself: whatever it takes. Immediate action is required, and I’ll be unflinchingly sure to do whatever I must.
That said, I know it’s pre-emptive, but regardless of the final decision, I won’t be coming into school today, and as outrageous and presumptuous an action as it may seem, I must strongly urge my fellow members of the Amelia Earhart Memorial Student Body to do the same.
With that in mind, please take the following proposal seriously: during upsetting anomalies, even if it’s impractical to cancel school, please treat all unexpected absences as excused. It might be impractical to take a drastic step like erasing school vacations to schedule them at the drop of a metaphysical hat, but short of that it has to be argued that during such creative reversals of the natural order, students might have any manner of reasons for incomplete attendance, many of which are left better unexplained, but nonetheless solid in their validity. Whatever steps are required to institute this change, even with only seven months until my graduation, I’ll gladly undertake them. Fill out paperwork, distribute a petition, lobby the school board or even run for a seat myself: whatever it takes. Immediate action is required, and I’ll be unflinchingly sure to do whatever I must.
That said, I know it’s pre-emptive, but regardless of the final decision, I won’t be coming into school today, and as outrageous and presumptuous an action as it may seem, I must strongly urge my fellow members of the Amelia Earhart Memorial Student Body to do the same.
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One would think that the school system would be constructed to cope with such unexpected interruptions.