Make online school weeks 4 days

The Issue

In the spring when the pandemic began, GBS and GBN had 4 days of e-learning per week, which balanced out the workload and made it possible to have an e-learning-life balance, well as much of a life as was possible during quarantine. The 4 days a week, with the day off being Wednesday, allowed for not only less stress and splitting up the week but also made it possible to have an even amount of days of each class each week, as opposed to normally, when a week is heavy in classes on one day or if not that one, the other, and this creates an unbalance between the two and if a week happens to be heavy in the harder of your two days, then you’re in for a bad week, especially with something as draining as 7+ hours of Zoom calls per day, which not only tire everyone out, but also significantly decrease overall performance in classes, which is the exact opposite thing from what the school is trying to achieve through e-learning, which is to continue learning even though we’re not in the building, well I have breaking news, it really isn’t working out that well, I myself know a good few people that say they’re more stressed now with this new e-learning system, since it’s 5 days a week, 7+ hours a day of absolute boredom and mental draining that does nothing but leads to less motivation and worse performance. But this could all change with one day a week less of e-learning to balance things out. I urge you, sign today, and your e-learning nightmare will fade away.

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The Issue

In the spring when the pandemic began, GBS and GBN had 4 days of e-learning per week, which balanced out the workload and made it possible to have an e-learning-life balance, well as much of a life as was possible during quarantine. The 4 days a week, with the day off being Wednesday, allowed for not only less stress and splitting up the week but also made it possible to have an even amount of days of each class each week, as opposed to normally, when a week is heavy in classes on one day or if not that one, the other, and this creates an unbalance between the two and if a week happens to be heavy in the harder of your two days, then you’re in for a bad week, especially with something as draining as 7+ hours of Zoom calls per day, which not only tire everyone out, but also significantly decrease overall performance in classes, which is the exact opposite thing from what the school is trying to achieve through e-learning, which is to continue learning even though we’re not in the building, well I have breaking news, it really isn’t working out that well, I myself know a good few people that say they’re more stressed now with this new e-learning system, since it’s 5 days a week, 7+ hours a day of absolute boredom and mental draining that does nothing but leads to less motivation and worse performance. But this could all change with one day a week less of e-learning to balance things out. I urge you, sign today, and your e-learning nightmare will fade away.

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Petition created on September 10, 2020