Removing late start Thursdays at Ray-Pec High School will allow the students to create a routine. After speaking with many parents, these late starts are creating issues with jobs, interferes with siblings, and can create an unsafe environment. Most students in high school should be capable of staying home by themselves without supervision. However, there are many students who are not capable of this. This petition could prove to the school the needs of the parents. The school says these late starts avoid having a teacher on service days. This is not true. They still have the same teacher on service days as all the other schools in the district. Panther time should be a privilege and a supervised activity. This shouldn't be something just given to students. Again, talking with parents of current and graduated students, their children got into trouble during Panther time because of the "free" environment. Students can sit anywhere and do whatever they want and if you go to the office to get your student they don't know where your teen will be. With all the school shootings, this is placing kids in harm's way. The last thing we need is to not know where students are. During Panther time students have snuck into places and have (by way of social media, NOT the school) been found to be doing inappropriate, non-school sanctioned activities. With teens, we all know the activities that have happened. Put the students' safety FIRST.

I just wanna wear them.

Lecturers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, require fair pay and a fair deal.

We need the backpacks for class.

I have paid over $3000 to work for free, which includes tuition, athletic fee, campus health fee, and other campus-based fees when the internship was 2.5 hours from campus. Total income for 10 weeks of 40hrs/week; $0.00 dollars Any politician who claims to want to make college more affordable - and/or - supports a $15 /hr minimum wage but does not pay all college interns is a lying hypocrite.

I am a student at John J. Pershing. I am a 7th grader which is about to be separated from my Dual Language program. We had this program for 2 years and it is important to my classmates in 709 because it helps them learn English. This program should continue because it helps the students that don't know English learn English better. It also helps students that know English well to also learn Spanish.

We have 7-10 times more people in prison than countries in Europe and 60% of those in prison never graduated from high school. The benefits of mentoring are profound since there is compelling evidence that mentoring helps keep children in school, helps them avoid drugs, gangs, crime, prison, and welfare while earning substantially higher incomes. Six Princeton professors liked this idea, but we need the people in politics to pay attention.

Because what is happening isn’t right!

Language funding is always a target for budget cuts and it's rare that a school has a strong Japanese program. Ms. Cooper was the best Japanese teacher we've ever seen. She always brings a positive energy and truly cares about her students. She is rare in her field and everyone wants her to stay.

The demands on nurses and hospital staff have been terribly risky! The potential for harm, injury and even death to our patients is at all-time highs due to reductions in staff. The grids used are numbers based regardless of the acuity of our patients, resembling a factory assembly line! Health care is personal and individual, we need our time back to care for and heal our communities! Nurses and healthcare staff are burning out and leaving the profession, which is detrimental to us all now and in the future! Enact safe staffing ratios now!

Wards 7 and 8 residents deserve better than this. United Medical Center is the only Hospital East of River and removing any funds from the Hospital will lead to fatal outcomes for residents in Wards 7 and 8. The DC Council must act immediately to restore the $40 million to UMC to avoid removing access to healthcare for Ward 7 and 8 residents.

I believe that every school should have equal funding