Hey my name is Anna Grace Jones and I am starting this petition to help students struggling with mental health issues in Alabama. This petition will help pass a law that will make it possible for students all around Alabama by taking mental health days like someone would take a physical health day. This absence from school would be marked as a mental health day as long as it is called in by a legal guardian. If a student has accumulated a lot of these days then a school counselor check in will be set up. This could help students all around and solve the problem before it becomes permanent. Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death in Alabama for people ages 15-24 and this law being passed could be the help that some students need from our school systems.