Greetings. I am a student at local Colorado middle school, Morey Middle School. You probably will think that this fact gives enough reason for one to click off of this petition, but I encourage you to read on.

There has been a new required activity, alternating with morning Homeroom (or "SUCCESS Seminar") on Tuesdays and Fridays, that is supposed to encourage and accelerate the development of executive functioning skills. This activity is called Academic Intervention. On paper, it's a genius idea. Have the kids participate in fun, group-focused activities with people they don't usually work with, while implementing something fresh and new into the school curriculum? Why not, right?

The only problem is... it doesn't really work. Imagine you're at your locker, and you really need to get this project for a class scheduled for tomorrow, today, so you plan to do it in homeroom. Then you realize... "Oh. It's Academic Intervention day." So you cannot do it in homeroom, you have to log in on your computer at home and do it as homework on your own time, which can be very annoying after such a long day of school. This exact scenario has happened to me, only to find out I'm being pushed off to a class where they give you a way to measure a problem, but not a way to solve it (one of its many flaws).

We're encouraging the Denver Public Schools district to modify their scheduling for this day, or, better, remove it altogether. Kids should have more time to work in school, where there should be...working on schoolwork, especially if they put a lot of time in effort into their work. We all know some kids slack off, but that's why we have a discipline system.

I hope that this petition can get at least 100 signatures, and at 1,000 we will send an email to DPS officials about this issue.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.