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Staff and teachers say our school is better than others but it's only because of our schools name "Early College" this does not change the fact that this school doesn't give us the advantages that college students. There is literally fast food down the road and not letting the students go and get food it doesn't take all day it's FAST food for a reason it takes less than 15 minutes to go get fast food. When there is a benchmark shouldn't you let us work on it IN CLASS more than 15 minutes? We have a life outside of school! Homework is an exception since it's HOME work. The lunch isn't bad but breakfast maybe you should try a little harder everything for breakfast is out of a package, most of the food they provide for breakfast is gross. They need to start trying for breakfast too, some kids have to eat the food at lunch and breakfast. Freshman success is a waste of our time it should just be like a FIT day so we can get the work done that we haven't finished in other classes done and not have to do it at home. Vending machines should be on the whole day not just at lunch we are in HIGH SCHOOL and this is an early college school so shouldn't we have those advantages all the other schools that aren't early college get these advantages and we don't?

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stop giving us reflection that need a parent permission I don't like that please stop

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stop giving us reflection that need a parent permission I don't like that please stop

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I feel like there should be a choice on presenting, most kids these days have really bad anxiety and standing in front of a bunch of judgmental kids is really really scary, I understand this is supposed to help us for the future but this doesn't really help most kids.

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I feel like the teachers are using covid as an excuse to not let us do certain things, Like sit by our friends, be in groups with out friends and a lot of other thing. They say that we have to stay in our seats because of "contact tracing" but we are with our friends most of the time anyway so why does it matter if I got to talk to my friends about things when were not doing anything in class. Also going to the bathroom, some of us when we ask really have to go and teachers telling us no when we really need to go probably makes us want to pee on the floor just to show them how much we had too and in college they let us go whenever we want and we don't have to ask if this is an early college school why aren't we allowed to do that.

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we have a life outside of school there's no reason that we need to do benchmarks at home we need in class time for when we need help or have question otherwise our final projects are going to be crappy 

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we have a life outside of school there's no reason that we need to do benchmarks at home we need in class time for when we need help or have question otherwise our final projects are going to be crappy 

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let us leave for lunch. there are 2 fast food places right down the road. it takes less then 10 minutes to get food and come back. remember all the students have to do is get consent from parents to leave the school whenever we want with 1 text message to leave at lunch anyways. Its not adding up on why we can't leave on our lunch anyway there more than enough time in a 30 minute setting to get food and come back.

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let us leave for lunch. there are 2 fast food places right down the road. it takes less then 10 minutes to get food and come back. remember all the students have to do is get consent from parents to leave the school whenever we want with 1 text message to leave at lunch anyways. Its not adding up on why we can't leave on our lunch anyway there more than enough time in a 30 minute setting to get food and come back.

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I know how to make the Freshmen classes mood infinitely more better, three words -the BioLit teachers. 

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I know how to make the Freshmen classes mood infinitely more better, three words -the BioLit teachers. 

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Their constantly over explaining things which wastes our time that could be used to get all of our work done that we have in that class. They also blame us for wasting our own time because we talk but they don't understand that when they overexplain it makes most of us get bored and stop listening to them so we cure our boredom with talking to each other. This is why we aren't able to listen to directions too. They don't realize that if so many people are saying they overexplain things, then that probably means they overexplain things. Everyday whenever class starts while they explain literally what feels like the whole bible, I have been able to get almost all of my classwork done from just tuning them out. Not to mention that they time us for how long we have been talking for and use it to take away our time by having us put our heads down. This means that I am able to know exactly how much time we talk for AND AT MOST its been around 5 minutes. Please explain how does 5 minutes make it so that I get a whole 20 minutes (Sometimes if even that) to work on the whole benchmark IN A TWO HOUR CLASS?

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Our protocol for the bathroom is to stand on the toilet and lock the door until the end of the emergency. but most of the stalls in the boy's and possibly girl's bathrooms don't have working locks on the bathroom stall doors.

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Make us get up at a later time, not 7:20 AM please

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Make us get up at a later time, not 7:20 AM please

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I understand that we only have two lines now due to covid but it makes zero sense. Lines moved faster and were less crowded when we had 3-4 lines. With 2 lines, it literally go's out the lunchroom doors and is extremely crowded. Lunch ladies and staff are more concerned about people cutting than having the lines be spread out. It shouldn't take 10 minutes of our break to get a meal that is freezer burned or mushy. we shouldn't have to wait in a line that takes up the entire walkway in the lunchroom just for a slice of pizza and some apple slices, especially when not everybody is getting that choice. I also got yelled at for taking a second fruit? She said take a different fruit but not two of the same kind, I'm not really sure how that makes any sense but okay, I'm starving, what if I don't like the other fruits? Most concepts at lunch just make zero sense and it angers me and a lot of students the way we are treated.

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if were on zoom and at home sick that should be couted as attendance, sense the school doesnt want us here when were sick

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Stop wasting class time and get work done

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Stop wasting class time and get work done

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To stay going to pass and continue to keep doing homework

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To stay going to pass and continue to keep doing homework

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When my parent came to pick me up the day after the shooting in Oxford, she noticed that kids were just walking right through. She brought up the fact that anyone could just walk right through past the 2 office ladies and start shooting, which I agree with her. I don't really know what would be done about it, but it's something that a conversation should be brought up about.

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I think we should have 3 or 4 days a week dedicated towards FIT because class work is getting overwhelming and we need more in-school time. 

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I think we should have 3 or 4 days a week dedicated towards FIT because class work is getting overwhelming and we need more in-school time. 

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We should be able to get food from the vending machine when ever we want. The teachers say we have more freedom than the other schools but not really I don't really see a problem being at the vending machines, it literally takes 6 seconds to get a bag of chips

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especially the biolit teachers

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I think we should have a 3rd FIT day, a lot of us are very overwhelmed with the amount of work we are recieving

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KEEP MR HILL HERE STOP HIM FROM LEAVING AT ALL COSTS 

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KEEP MR HILL HERE STOP HIM FROM LEAVING AT ALL COSTS 

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I think we should have a cooking class because nobody know how to cook a grilled cheese 

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I think we should have a cooking class because nobody know how to cook a grilled cheese 

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this one teacher needs to stop calling people fat, it is not ok and can cause a eating disorder

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We should be able to go off campus for lunch. We are one of the very few schools that still have to stay in the school. McDonalds and Subway are right down the road.

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Let us sit in our vehicles and go to McDonald's and subway and we will be back on time it's not like we are just going to leave forever we are in high school let us be teens and go get food. Also, I am pretty sure that the name of this building is early college high school, and if we are doing college classes and off-campus classes we should not be treated like junior high students. 

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Let us sit in our vehicles and go to McDonald's and subway and we will be back on time it's not like we are just going to leave forever we are in high school let us be teens and go get food. Also, I am pretty sure that the name of this building is early college high school, and if we are doing college classes and off-campus classes we should not be treated like junior high students. 

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We should be able to leave for lunch because the lunch here is not enough to fill most of the students and the area we have to eat in s too packed to be comfortable. We are old enough to be responsible enough to get food and come back .

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My classes are actually going pretty well with the homework and tests.

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I have become very overwhelmed with school work, causing me to stress a lot, having extra time to work on it in school would be nice, especially when I work a lot after school.

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Some of our teachers assign us too much work (with our groups mainly) with very minimal time to complete in class where we end up having to finish outside of school, which is difficult for some who have activities going on.

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I think FIT is a very well-rounded program that benefits our grades by getting the opportunity to get our work done.

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1)     This concept is flat out dumb. This class would be great if it was like a fit, but having us read a book that is doing nothing but wasting our times... not to mention it is preaching a religion that not everyone worships. I find that insensitive and annoying (I'm not the only one either). I don't care if you are Christian... but why are we reading this book in SCHOOL?

2)     Presentations on mask wearing protocols & how to wash your hands?! WE ARE IN A PANDEMIC. We understand how it works, we've had countless amounts these presentations. I get that there are people that still do these things wrong, but they know they do and they aren't going to change just because you made us do presentations on it. This class just wastes our time.

PLEASE JUST MAKE THIS CLASS A NORMAL ADVISORY, THIS IS POINTLESS.

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Need to sell cake pops at lunch

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How was your weekend? We spent most of it celebrating my friend's birthday. I made a whole mess of treats including chocolate zucchini cake (as cupcakes), these salted caramel dark chocolate cookies, and these peanut butter M&M cookies too-it's been way too long since I made a batch of those in particular! The birthday girl loves chocolate and peanut butter and caramel so these 3 were a no brainer.

There's no batter time (get it? batter?) than a happy occasion to indulge in your favorite treats whether that's a birthday, shower, wedding, you name it. My mom and sisters threw my baby shower last month and one of the treats they surprised me with was a HUGE display of cake pops. I love cake pops, but hardly ever take the time to make them. Though I did whip up a batch for both of my sisters' bridal showers in the past few years.

See? Special occasions call for super special treats.

The difference between these cake pops and others you may have tried is that these are 100% homemade. There's no box cake mix or canned frosting, which results in a totally unique cake pop experience. You can actually TASTE the homemade. The love, the passion, and the care that goes into creating each adorable pop.

So anyway! I first began making homemade cake pops when I wrote Sally's Candy Addiction. In fact, this recipe is published in the book! I want to share it on the blog as well because I've gotten lots of questions about making from-scratch cake pops.

Today we'll go over all my tips, tricks, and secrets to crafting the peeeeerfect pop as well as the homemade vanilla cake and vanilla buttercream used inside. There's lots of ground to cover so let's pop right to it. (Can't stop with my nerdiness right now.)

Since we're leaving the box cake mix and canned frosting on the store shelves, we'll need to take a little extra time to prep both from scratch. I always make the cake the night before, then finish the cake pops the next day. Here's the general process:

1. Make homemade cake.

2. Make homemade frosting.

3. Crumble cake into homemade frosting.

4. Mix.

5. Roll into balls.

6. Dip.

7. EAT!

Super basic recipes for both the vanilla cake and frosting, but I do encourage you to use the correct size pan for the cake. This cake is too large for a typical 9-inch cake pan. You'll need to use a 9-inch springform pan since it rises quite high. Or you can use an 11×7-inch pan instead. A 10-inch springform pan would work as well.

Cake ingredients are straightforward. The basic crew like flour, butter, sugar, vanilla, milk. Same goes with the vanilla frosting: butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla, milk (or cream). The difference between this and what you get out of a box is the taste. You can totally tell these cake pops are special and it's because you started with from-scratch components. WORTH IT!

Now it's time to crumble the cake up and mix with your frosting.

(Crumbling the cake into the frosting sounds super weird when you think about it and that's exactly what cake pops are-super weird when you think about it. It's cake and frosting mixed together to form a truffle-like ball. Pop a stick in it and dunk into coating. Yep, it's weirdly delicious and awesome and you need to embrace it.)

Left photo: cake crumbled into bowl of frosting. ↓

Right photo: the two mixed together. ↓

Once the two are mixed together, it's time to roll the mixture into balls. And here's my trick for doing so.

My Rolling Trick

It's easier to roll the cake + frosting mixture into perfectly round balls if it's cold. And what I do is roll the balls up right after the two are mixed together. They're pretty misshapen because the cake + frosting mixture is super moist-and at room temperature. So then I chill the balls in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. After that, I give them another little roll to smooth out the sides. When they're cold, they're easier to smooth out and form perfectly round shapes.

So (1) roll (2) chill (3) roll again to smooth out the sides.

Just like when we make Oreo balls, the cake balls need to be super chilled before dipping, so this trick gets both steps done!

Now let's dunk. You can dip the cake balls into pure white chocolate, which is what I prefer for best taste, but that stuff is pretty expensive. And you need a good amount for all 40 cake pops! You can use candy melts/candy coating instead. I give both options in the recipe below along with notes for each choice.

Another trick: to ensure the cake ball stays secure on the lollipop stick, dip it slightly into the coating first. Then stick in the center of the cake ball. See photo above!

And another trick: the best way to allow the coating to dry and set-without ruining the perfectly round cake pop-is to place them right side up in a large styrofoam block or even a box. I used a box, as pictured below, for this batch. I just poked super tiny holes into it. Easy and cheap.

Cake pops will be dry within an hour or so.

Cake pops are a genius celebration-worthy treat to make ahead of time because they freeze beautifully. I simply freeze them in a large zipped-top freezer bag after they've fully dried. They're great for up to 6 weeks, then just let them thaw overnight in the fridge.

I have a few more tips for ya! I went over these in Sally's Candy Addiction because they're pretty important to review before you get started.

Cake Pop Tips

1. Frosting is the best part of cake, right? Well that doesn't apply to cake pops. Too much frosting produces a super wet and greasy cake pop-not the deliciously moist pop you were expecting. This frosting recipe yields *just enough* to barely moisten those cake crumbs. Proper ratio is imperative here!

2. The cake balls need to be extremely cold before dipping. Make sure you have enough room in your refrigerator or freezer for them. I always chill them on a large lined baking sheet.

3. A 2-cup glass liquid measuring cup is the perfect depth for dipping the cake pops.

4. Tinting the coating brings a fun POP of color! I usually stick to just white + one other color. Or two colors maximum. The teal color I use here is Americolor gel food coloring in teal.

5. Sprinkles are necessary, of course. But you already knew that.

Besides lollipop sticks and the correct size cake pan, you don't really need much else to get going!

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Homemade Cake Pops - Sally's Baking Addiction

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How to make homemade cake pops completely from scratch with no box cake mix or canned frosting. Plus I share all my tips and tricks for coating them too!

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This may be a little much but some teachers, that will go unnamed, are oblivious to students problems. Like I have messaged multiple teachers with complaints but none of them have seen my messages from a even a few days ago. They need to do there job correctlt and help students not have to freak out about school.

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Please make the school more inclusive and welcoming towards queer students especially trans and non-binary students. I know many of them do not feel welcome and feel like they may be hurt by their classmates.

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There needs to be more food at lunch we're hungry growing people and we need to eat.

I don't know what the lunch ladies are doing with the extra food from lunch but if they're throwing it away they need to stop doing that cuz they shouldn't be wasting food while kids at the school are still hungry.

Don't tell us at thee beginning of the year that there will be snacks for us to take home at the end on the day if there isn't gonna be snacks. You shouldn't be lying to us like that.

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It is absolutely ridiculous that a teacher can assign a model to be done by Monday and give us 45 minutes of class time to work on it the whole week and expect us to work on it at home. This is a very busy week there are many school activities going on and this is a partner project that we have to get together with our partner outside of school to do we were not given a very good heads-up that we had to do this so many of us are really struggling to get this done because we don't have the time or resources to get together with a partner outside of school to finish this project.

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Don't let the teachers bully some of the students.

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Please take bullying seriously. I know the teachers see things and don't say anything.

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Please take bullying seriously. I know the teachers see things and don't say anything.

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Punish students for using offensive slurs toward others

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Punish students for using offensive slurs toward others

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fit is going really well I just wish Wednesday was a fit day to

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Vending machine Came back and stay here

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Let us bring our backpacks to class

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It's a bit long but it should be some good feedback

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It's a bit long but it should be some good feedback

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Bags. There is absolutely no reason bags can't be brought to class. It's been claimed that they get in the way of the walk ways, however this is blatantly false. If my lunch box can fit on my desk or under my laptop I feel there is a very low likelihood of someone climbing onto my table to trip over one of my bags.

Lunch. What happened? Last year went extremely smooth with having the 2 grade per lunch system. Why was it changed? I know it has been a pain to work with judging by how many times I've heard teachers and students complain about it.

I have been wondering why we cannot join Zoom calls unless there is a relation to COVID. Why? Enginuity is a horrid "learning" platform that I can guarantee you any student you ask that has taken the program can tell you just how awful it is. So why can I not take my in-person classes through the Zoom calls. If it fully counts as you being in attendance, assuming you have COVID, why am I not allowed to join at home? This needs to be changed.

Outside of school events. There's a lot of outside events that take at the school. All of them are optional, except for band. Band is a class that I enjoy being in, but it's unreasonable that I can attend it 100% of the time. At school, I can be there pretty much everyday, after school is the issue. Most of us in band are at the age where we have more going on then school or school activates, were young adults, not preschoolers. There is a large chunk of band members that have jobs. Some of them can't get every Tuesday night practice off and every performance off. That should not be punished, nor should it be expected. I love band and I attend as often as I can, but that doesn't mean I can attend every night. Especially when we're not told until the week of a parade that we need to take that performance day off work. Needs to be worked on.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

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Teachers have been doing a good job to meet students where they're at and assisting academically whenever it's needed 

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Teachers have been doing a good job to meet students where they're at and assisting academically whenever it's needed 

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It feels like having so many people in one confined place is putting people at risk so spreading us out somehow whether its in classrooms or the commons would ensure everyone's safety.

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I feel like people who are close contacted should be quarantined unless they're fully vaccinated.

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Let us bring backpacks to class, please.

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Let us bring backpacks to class, please.

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Make the commons more accessible to students, don't treat it like a privilege that only certain students can access. 

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Make the commons more accessible to students, don't treat it like a privilege that only certain students can access. 

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i feel very overwhelmed with the amount of homework assigned in contemporary lit. Being a student that works 5-6 hours after school, having to write a whole paper thats 5 paragraphs that is due the next day, is a little ridiculous.

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I believe we need to stop having kids who were close contact stay at the school. because we just had one kid get Covid-19 and then it spread like wildfire throughout the entire school. secondly most kids who are close contacted do not wear there mask properly. The masks being below the nose is to hard and time consuming for the teacher to enforce. So an easy solution to having the mask below your nose is to just start quarantining all the students who are close contacted because it is honestly scary how many people are getting it.

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I feel like if you are a close contact you should be sent home or if you test negative then you shouldn't have to wear a mask because you aren't putting other people at risk if you don't have it.

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It is incredibly annoying having to navigate through 50+ other students.

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add a class that is going to teach me about mortgages, taxes, budgets and how to be a successful adult when talking about money issues. Give us all the resources we need to know about adulting and being on our own.

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Allow Backpacks in the classroom

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I agree, having three fit days work make it easier to catch up on heavy workloads

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add another FIT day to get work done

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Add another FIT day we  use to have 3 of them now we only have 2 of them.

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Add another FIT day we  use to have 3 of them now we only have 2 of them.

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Students using offensive slurs and ridiculing others for their political views. 

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Students using offensive slurs and ridiculing others for their political views. 

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A very good opportunity for students

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the school need to let us be able to go out for lunch

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add another fit day would be very helpful with the amount of homework some of us get and its another place to go if we need extra help from our teachers.

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As my career in high school moves on I have realized that the teachers have stepped their game up with being understandable with our schedule as much as theirs and not giving us a workload when we have stuff outside of school too.

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This year it seems as thought the teachers are listening a lot more to the students. They are actually taking the students wants into perspective and trying to work more with the students.

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Students doing inappropriate or illegal activities in their cars during lunch 

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Students doing inappropriate or illegal activities in their cars during lunch 

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The commons is nice to have as a place for work. 

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The commons is nice to have as a place for work. 

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I'm really enjoying and finding the tech to be working well for me this year. I am enjoying carrying around less paper.

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the newer staff is very nice

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Make it easier for kids to stay home if they are sick, don't make them worry about getting behind in classes.

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Make it easier for kids to stay home if they are sick, don't make them worry about getting behind in classes.

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My teachers are very understanding

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This winter is gonna be cold, don't make us stand outside if we get to school early.

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STOP FREEZING THE MILK

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The 3 minute hallway time it is not enough time to get where you need to

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if your gonna freeze it give us ice crem instead

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To watch where you are walking and how fast you are going

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So far most teachers have shown me respect, good on them

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I think that all of the teachers at the High school are way better than the ones at the Jr High. The teachers here are far more inclusive and they are very competent.