Write your own declaration of independence. If you were to declare your own independence from something, what would it be? School? Your parents? Your coach? This is not a "b*tch session," so please don't use it to berate someone. However, do explain why you want independence and what you believe you are entitled to.
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Chris Loo
10/27/2015 01:01:49 pm
Dear men, women,children of the fifty united states of America, we are in a time of struggle for the students of any curriculum. I declare the independence of students from common core mathematics, and any other form of lessons made for majority, and not individual citizens. The students shall chose the lessons they want to learn about, and what they can build a successful career out of. This shall be a country free of tyranny. The free study of the young Americans will be what they chose.
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blake
10/28/2015 09:36:32 am
attention boys and girls men and women today's parents are not feeding us kids and teens in the ways us kids believe is correct. i declare that we eat craft mac and cheese at least 4 times a week simply because its amazing. we want our independence to not have to eat these dreadful foods. this goes for every lunchroom in the country and we want the blue box not no cheap imitation mac and cheese.we will be fed the way we want to be fed! that's is all thanks
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Emily
10/28/2015 09:40:20 am
This hurt me a little. I don't even like mac and cheese.
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Shelley Grace
10/28/2015 09:46:09 am
I agree with this 100%
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Mason H
10/28/2015 09:37:58 am
I declare! I declare our Independence from the school's lunch program. This program leaves children K through 12 starving in the street, with barely enough food in their stomachs to make it home from school, let alone practice. What we need is freedom, freedom of choice, freedom of food. If I want to eat the greasy pizza soaked clean through, who has the right to defy me? A better lunch program is what we need, it's what we want. I know many people who are sent gagging at the taste and the smell of the dreaded whole grains and low budget 1% milk. America is worried about being overweight, but what about those who are underweight? Those who are overweight but don't mind? Those who would enjoy a tasty meal at the time of noon? This is what is wrong, this is what needs to be fixed, for a better America, a better tomorrow. We must come together, and unite in this time of starvation and disgust.
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Wyatt
10/28/2015 09:42:33 am
You're an inspiration. I applaud your work!
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Logan Blair
10/28/2015 11:23:02 am
This is a well written piece on the subject of school lunches. I think that this best explains how most students feel about how we are fed at school. Everything is bland and there are too small of portions that are supposed to get us through the day.
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Emily
10/28/2015 09:38:36 am
We as a nation and as a people have always had a concrete idea of how we view others. These views have become ideals and if someone does not fit this ideal, they are immediately cast aside as different, and usually not in a good way. There is also the issue of inferiority. In the past, any person that wasn't a white man was inferior. Today, people like to say that all men are created equal, but problems like police brutality toward black society still exist. Women are still making $0.75 to a man's dollar. I watched a video the other day about how America is NOT the greatest country in the world because of how we have become so oblivious to how we are changing, and not for the better. We USED to be the greatest country in the world. But without change, we never will be again. There are many people trying to change, and those are the people that will make a difference. Those are the people declaring freedom from our bad habits and bad judgment. I declare myself one of those people, and I therefore declare my freedom from the bad in this country, while committing to the good.
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Sir Gavin Cornelius Burke Esquire
10/28/2015 09:38:44 am
People! Families! Parents! Why must there be the schoolwork that must be taken home every night? Why must our lovely and receding time with our families be cut short by the mundane worksheets and problems that already plague us every day at school? I say nay! Let us bring an end to the homework, let us rise up and be responsible citizens and children, and do all of our work at school! May we never again have to sit at our tables and stare at mathematical problems whilst our family members play the Box of X 360. Join me, my brothers and sisters, as classmates, and let us bring an end to the monstrous tyranny of the Homework.
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Cody Taylor
10/28/2015 10:08:25 am
A beautiful masterpiece of words.
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lovin
10/28/2015 11:30:04 am
much much agreed with mr.cody
Shelley Grace
10/28/2015 09:41:07 am
Citizens of the United States are all equal and share the same rights. The right to education. The right to occupation of choice. The right to listen to whatever you want or watch whatever you want. Everyone, as an individual, has the ability to follow stately laws and guidelines. Rules, if you will. Everyone has the right to the same things. Whether these rights will be abused depends on the individual citizen. Now, I am not simply preaching the rights we already have. I would like to set the world apart by giving every single person a set of headphones and some form of device to listen to music on. I believe music can fix everything. Music can make you feel better when you're feeling down. Music can help you meet lifelong friends or relationships. If nothing else in your life seems to be going right, music will forever be there for anyone who wishes to listen to it. It will always be there because it can't go anywhere. It is one of those things that can't just disappear out of the blue. There is just so much music in the world, that there will always and forever be some form of it somewhere. Music for everyone! Whenever and wherever they want! There are people living without it everyday, and I strongly believe that music alone can help people. It can help you become a better person. It can save lives. So enough with having no form of music for the less fortunate! Music should be provided to every person. Rich or poor - without any requirements - or standards. So let's give everyone an iPod or an MP3 Player and headphones or earbuds. Who knows the differences that could make on the world? America could become a happier - more united place than it already is. That has to count for something, right? Music = Better people. Better people = Better America.
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Alison Renee'
10/28/2015 09:41:18 am
Thinking about this often, and putting the right views on this, I personally feel that we should get independence from class subjects, we shouldn't spend 7-8 hours a day (excluding the summers of course), studying things we aren't interested in, and won't be using in the future. There should be 'fields", such as engineering, music, and so on. You may think that this would work because people change their careers all the time, but couldn't we change those so called "fields' just as easily. I'm not saying that today's lessons aren't useful in today's life, but how often do you use the things you learned in school in your adult life? Besides that, we should also get to choose the hours we want for schooling, technology is taking over more and more everyday, so why not have the people who want their schooling to be at ridiculous hours do theirs online? These are just ideas, and I bet there are many more than what come to mind when we think about this longer. Most of today's rules and laws seem to fit very well, such as the drinking age, and the driving age. I don't think that us teenagers need much more independence because most would abuse it. Most of these are established because people can't handle this.
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Shelley Grace
10/28/2015 09:47:19 am
This is something I am very interested in. I would support that all the way.
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Harley
10/28/2015 11:22:49 am
I support your idea. But I'm just curious. . . If someone wanted to go into say, musical theater for a career, would they still be required to take math/science classes? Or maybe up to a certain level of math?
william hickey
10/28/2015 09:42:00 am
i want independence from school lunches. i believe we should have a choice, many of the school lunches don't have enough substance. and being the majority of what we have to eat throughout the day at school and us not having time to get food before practice we wind up starving through most of the evening. the serving sizes aren't large enough to support a growing developing teenager especially not those of us participating in sports. over the course of this year i have slowly been losing weight. and have little energy. i'm not at home very much and don't have much time to eat very much when i am at home. we need a change. we need a good wholesome meal at school, and we need it now. why is the government deciding how much we can eat?
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Harley
10/28/2015 11:20:53 am
Why don't you just pack a lunch from home, or bring snacks for after school and before practice?
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lovin
10/28/2015 09:42:16 am
hello my people lend me your ear! We are in great need of change form this place we call school we have been here long enough and its time we leave now! If we stay here much longer there will be none of us left they are dropping like fly's and vanishing everyday we need to leave and declare our own independence form this! Its time for change my listeners!
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Emily
10/28/2015 09:44:01 am
If we revolt against the school, we're technically revolting against the government. So good luck with that.
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Billy
10/28/2015 09:46:18 am
I'll support you.
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Mason H
10/28/2015 09:57:57 am
Without education, our country would go nowhere in the future. We would be surpassed by every other modern country of our time.
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Ingalls
10/28/2015 10:20:02 am
Considering the errors present in your writing, I would suggest an overdose of school rather than a dismissal from it.
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I Have Dreams! Do You?
10/28/2015 09:44:55 am
For all the people reading this, The American children are in a time of utter depression! They are being told constantly that TV teaches them nothing they can use in their everyday life, while in school we are told to help X find its problems! Thats not the only thing that is depressing these poor young children, the lunch's that they are receiving are way to small! So please if you are reading this, help get these poor young children out of this extremely depressing time in their life! If you donate your time to help these children out, you may get a free snickers and if you keep helping this cause you may even get a free can of pop as a thank you for you're help! Thank you :)
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Logan Blair
10/28/2015 09:54:20 am
On behalf of all high school students across the nation, I demand our independence from homework. I demand that we end all of the late nights of work given to us by our schools. We are people with lives to live, not just your slaves put under the oppression of the tiring work that you give us. After seven and a half hours of school a day, you teachers think that it is necessary to make us spend hours at home, doing work that is not needed. I say again, this is not needed! Hear our cries and appeal to our pleas to restrain from giving us this unnecessary doing! We are hear to learn, and we go home to relax, go to our jobs, or to participate in sports, but we have homework that takes away our time and makes it nearly impossible to do any of these. What about our weekends? Is it too much to ask to have those two days off? Now people must understand why we are bound with stress, anxiety, and depression. This is the thing that makes our years to remember, worth forgetting.
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Mason H
10/28/2015 10:04:02 am
I agree, the seven hours at school should be well used so that it wont take away from our personal lives. It is odd to think that some nights the reason you don't get good sleep is because you were up all night doing homework, but they expect you to preform well enough the next day, eventually building up. Soon you will be unproductive at school because of the work they give you at school.
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Wyatt
10/28/2015 10:00:47 am
We live in a time where our schools are frequently infiltrated by sick men, and our kids are killed in far to high of numbers. It is time we start to draw attention to our sick, and offer our help. We can help eliminate the wave of heartache that follows after these massacres. Ladies and gentlemen, we are surrounded by sick. It is time we draw attention to these people, but not in a negative fashion. We must recognize the weak, and surround them with love. We must not intensify their sickness, but instead treat it. We as a whole must learn to lend help when help is needed.
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Mason H
10/28/2015 10:07:12 am
I agree, people who are "sick" should be under watch, not in a bad sense, but enough to keep others safe.
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Logan Blair
10/28/2015 10:07:45 am
I agree with you 100%. This problem needs to be addressed! This is a rather easy thing act on, but us as Americans are too lazy to do anything about it. We just watch it happen time and time again without acting on it.
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10/28/2015 10:06:11 am
Hello my fellow American citizens. It is time to declare our independence. It is time to finally take a stand against dirty hippies. For years they have left our society dwindling and weakened from their presence in our cities and towns. Yes they are a peaceful people, but under all that peace is more sinister motive. To make our country as lazy and dirty as possible, and we are not going to just stand by and let that happen. I believe, and millions of others as well, that it is time to secede from the hippie nation and move forwards to a more cleaner, healthier, and even happier state of mind and country. As we move forward, we must keep in mind why we are moving forward. We must always keep in the back of our minds why we as a nation decided to declare our independence from the dirty hippies. We need to remain clean and whole of heart. We need to remain healthy and not partake in the "couch-potato" as much. We need to not talk about politics like we know what going on when we actually have no clue and say things like "The government is tearing us down, man." or "Dude, we just need to reform the schools to allow weed, man.". It is finally time for a change. A change for the betterment of our nation and ultimately the world as hopes of other nations will follow in our footsteps and declare their own independence. It Is time. We as a nation declare our independence from the dirty hippies.
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Dylon
10/28/2015 10:09:26 am
I'm here for all teenage girls in high school. We should be able to wear what we want as long as it isn't too revealing. The boys are allowed to wear "bro-tanks" but girls aren't allowed to wear tank tops. In my mind, boys shouldn't be able to wear bro-tanks because they show too much muscle (if they have good arms) which girls dig, and what do girls have to show? A nice shoulder? How is it that girls can't show a little skin but boys can show a lot? Freedom of clothing should be considered in schools and supported.
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Layne Harris
10/28/2015 10:14:44 am
Together, as families, friends, coworkers, or even mere acquaintances, we must rise up above our envy. Jealousy and greed have completely saturated our daily lives; submerging our routines in a vicious cycle of bitterness and discontent. Our wants and needs are dictated by what others have and we do not-- wealth, happiness, love. Our world is seen through a lens of resentment, and our dreams are only insult to injury. Together this resentment we hold so closely must be relinquished for the fact that we all end up in a similar hole, in the same dirt, on the same earth. Instead we can turn this negative view into something much more liberating. Mistakes no longer matter. Embarrassment and shame become nothing to fear, but only a byproduct of living. Together, our time with each other could be much more than neighbors separated by a white picket fence, and become a united community separated only by the bonds we build with each other.
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Harley
10/28/2015 06:08:26 pm
As a united people, we must come together and fight for our independence. We have shifted so far from the original intentions of our founding fathers; the government was first intended to secure our rights, but now we are being forced to purchase health care and pay taxes. The pride and fulfillment of being American is being squandered away with the toleration of illegal immigrants. The generations before us that fought in wars to win our freedom now receive poor health care due to long waits, inadequate staff, and aged Veteran facilities. The nation that once shared views about religion and valued those morals isn’t allowed to discuss God in public schools. We need to unite and battle back to regain the freedom that we once had -- and that includes freedom from ludicrous ideas, and from socialism. Certain cities petition to have the minimum wage raised to as high as fifteen dollars an hour. If you want a solid income, you need to earn it rather than have it handed to you. We need better care for Veterans and people with disabilities. We need the freedom to make our own decisions about purchasing health care, and we need tax reforms. Most importantly, we need a nation that will come together and not only revive our standards and morals, but also fight for basic rights and govern in the best interest of the people.
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Hayden
11/1/2015 01:58:51 pm
I declare that all students in the entire United States of America have to take classes that only deal with their future choices. Some of the classes we take in school aren't going to have to do with anything in our future careers. For example if math or science have nothing to do with our future goals then the student shouldn't need to be taking that class. I declare that the school lunches should just be better... honestly that pretty much sums up the school lunches. They shouldn't worry about our diets, and that shouldn't be any of their concern whatsoever. The lunches they serve at school are okay...but they don't feed us enough. kids at school are still really hungry after they eat the "meal" big enough for a mouse. basically I declare that school lunches should have a little bit bigger and better portions and students should only need to take classes they are interested in.
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