https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2020/10/unirel-spring-2021-course.html

Virginia Tech has removed Spring Break in favor of 5 "one-day breaks" spread out through the semester in order to "provide students with downtime and stress relief". Most students have first-hand experience in situations such as this e.g Fall Break, where professors will actually provide more work to be done, knowing that there is more out of class time to complete these assignments. Furthermore, with the removal of a week break, the course material structure of classes will most likely not be able to be restructured in an efficient manner; causing more stress to students instead of removing some.

VT Administration and Tim Sands have a history of treating the student body as children. Most, if not all, of the student body, are of legal age to drive, vote, drown themselves in debt, and die for our country, yet they do not believe that we are capable of making smart and educated decisions on our own regarding the safety of our health and others. If anything, allow law enforcement to deal with any issues that are actually a threat to other as this falls in their domain.

Please sign this petition and share with others to show the administration that we need to have autonomy over our own decision as we have most of this semester, keeping the number of COVID-19 cases from spreading like wildfire across campus.