Zoom does absolutely nothing but stress students, staff, and parents out. Zoom wastes our time and our energy. One day a week Zoom was ENOUGH and now those trying to balance work, life, and school must do it 4-5 days a week? No. Have some compassion for those whos lives are falling through the slips of their fingers and those who are so busy that they are unable to do this. People have lives. There are students who have to work jobs to help their families or build an income and by suffocating our schedule with Zoom every single day, these students are incapable of doing so. 

The seniors, class of 2021. We have worked 12 years of our lives just to be chained to a ChromeBook in our own homes. To be forced to stare at a screen and go brain dead for 4-7 hours a day. To completely diminish and destroy our energy as human beings. It is our last year and we are miserable. Aren’t you fed up? Yes, you reading. Are you not overflowing with rage? You should be. We have given the education system our entire lives just to be repaid with OVERFLOWING amounts of stress and anxiety. 

Another thing floating around is that fully virtual students ‘have it easier’ because they are at home. They DO NOT have it easier than in person students. Virtual students must balance home life (that can be extremely stressful from my own personal experience), work, school and maybe even more. That is a lot, especially to be doing in your own home. Your home is supposed to be your safe space but when it is invaded by stress and loss of time that safe space becomes a stress space.

To be quite frank, in person students should not even be a thing because we are still in a global pandemic but that is none of my business, right? I am just a senior in high school, right? I have no opinion because school is merely training us to become Capitalistic slaves and be attached to a cubicle or a desk the same way we are attached to ChromeBook, right? Wake up. 

Us students are under so much stress right now it is wrenching for me to even begin to think about. One day last week I had two French projects, a math quiz, a math project, an english narrative draft, english notes, a 60 question astronomy assignment, an abundance of even more math work on two separate softwares for my second math class that is an eternal waste of my time, and about four assignments due for gym all in one day. Do you see how this is an issue? This is a daily thing. Do you see the added stress that this waste of time we call “virtual school” is bringing me and about the rest of the student/staff body? This is shameful. It is evil. These are hours we will never ever get back, hours we will never live again all because we have to sit here for hours on end and listen to people lag through screen. Zoom does not enhance learning, it makes it worse and one day a week is enough.

To speak for the whole school, and even the whole district, we are tired. Making students and staff sit on a computer for hours on end does absolutely NOTHING but deteriorate mental capacity. We are taught in school that we should not be on our phones all of the time because it is bad for us but yet you have us staring at a different screen for multiple hours on end? That does not make much sense to me. Seems like the education system only goes against things when they are inconvenient to them. 

Change is always possible and right now my mission is to make this change a possibility so let’s go, lets share the hell out of this petition and let’s reclaim our time, our lives, and our energy. Thank you.