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us as women, find it uncomfortable to wear skirts at school. we should be having the option to wearing pants too. i feel that it’s unfair and sexist for the boys to have it.
we understand that you want to stick to the heritage and culture, but frankly women wearing pants has nothing to do with it, especially when teachers and other important figures get to wear them. we appreciate the “skort” thing you were trying to accomplish, but we all knew that wouldn’t work. so don’t make our lives harder and complicated because we don’t see the problem in wearing pants. it’s 2021 WE DONT NEED THAT MINDSET ANYMORE.

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My first suggestion is that we get so much homework and I think we should get a little less work. We would like more group work because we have fun working together and we share some ideas and work really hard, and give us less e-portfolios, IXL and achieve 3000 because it makes us really stressful and we need to rest. Lastly,  I hope you make the lesson time less than 1 hour because it becomes boring and sometimes I feel even the teachers get bored

Noora Burqaiba

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school has been overwhelming and stressful, I truly think all students are pressurized with the amount of school work, the amount of homework, classwork, presentation,and research and other stuff are unbelievable and we are all facing a stressful time and I don’t think we should face these unnecessary stress from school, I’ve been struggling to maintain my own life with school, I don’t have the time to spend with my family because of the amount of work the school gives, and the time to submit the work isn’t enough, we don’t have the time to do all these work all at once, school should realize that we are not robots to do all these work at once, we are humans that can’t control all these work at once, I hope the school understands what are we going through and reduce the amount of work they give.

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my concern is the amount of work we are expected to do. we have a family who we should spend time with, with this amount of work we are assigned and keep in mind we finish school at 2:25 which is so unnecessary. what I'm trying to say is I feel exhausted after school and I still have so much work to complete everyday which makes it impossible to spend quality time with my family.
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if school hours are reduced until 1:30 lets say I will have enough time for myself and maybe be a bit easier on us and give us at least a little less work to do everyday.
Alia Khoory

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i’d like to address my concern regarding school timings, we need to get up and face a screen for an hour and 5 minutes six times a day with only 25 mins break, especially those in distance learning, how would they feel? exhaustion, tiredness, decrease in body movement. a longer break or two breaks would be a good option. second concern is related to the first, lesson timings. they’re too long, too much information to take in at one time, too much work to be done in one time. also we’re always in breakout rooms doing one presentation after another rushingly. as a school system, don’t you have better tactics? listen to the students and actually take our concerns into consideration, this is no preparation for college whatsoever, it’s wearing us out.
sheikha 11bg

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a lot of the work we did as a class has to do with a lot of presentations and for example one class is giving us a research to do on top of the presentations which is a lot of work piling up and i think it would be good if the work isn’t due too soon that would give us time to work efficiently and not stress over how much work we have.

Noura Albawardi
11BG

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The first issue I'd like to address is school timings; it is unnecessary to keep us in school till 2:25. The suitable time is 1:00, and yes, I've heard the statement 15 mins attendance at the start and end of the period. Teachers usually take only 5 mins for attendance, and for the last 15 mins, it's just extra work. This doesn't give me time to spend with my family nor myself. I have to dedicate the rest of the hours to school work, which brings me to the next point. We are getting overworked at school, which isn't something decent, especially in this pandemic; we already have obstacles to overcome. Work needs to be reduced, and this rule that only three homework is allowed isn't even used anymore. I've been more than exhausted in the last semester and this one too. Overworking us isn't the key to education. School timings need to be like last year, which was till 1. Keeping time short helped me do so much stuff in the best way and give myself and my family time. This issue has been bugging me for so long now. What I'm saying should be taken into action as soon as possible.

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I think last semester was very stressful with portfolios and exams the same week and we didn’t know how to focus from the workload. This semester started with many assignments and I think teachers should consider we have other subjects that we already have so much to do. I think we do more assignments than studying the actual lesson. I’m hoping this semester they consider not putting portfolios and exams the same week because it was seriously very stressful. Also the break time is very short I don’t know why the lessons are for an hour but the break it very short I think we deserve longer breaks to help us function for the rest of the lessons. Hotoon 11BG

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there has been an overload of work from the begging of the year. just because we are at home doesn't mean that we are capable of doing a lot of work. teachers need to take in consideration that we have other subjects and other overload of work. some teachers need to be more understandable that we can't really do all the work when we have other classes as well. another suggestion is the school time table. its always changing and I don't see the need in that, also the timing is very bad. the 1hour and 5 minutes for each period is very exhausting. the time table of Tuesday is the most reasonable timetable.

I hope to see in semester 2 that the work that is given is less, we actually study rather than doing all assignments, the timetable changing, and I hope to see that the teachers are more understanding.
Thank you
-Oasha Al Suwaidi 11BG

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we want less work especially during finals and midterms because it gets too stressful and we don't really have time to do all the work. Maryam Al Zaffin

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a lot of girls that i have communicated with have been as concerned as i am with the workload that teachers have been giving out. i feel like they are not taking into consideration that we have several other classes and different workload. we have presentations, researches, homework(eg. ixl and achieve3000) and many more. therefore, everything has been very stressful for all of us. if they could lessen the workload overall, it would be great
- Suhaila Al Falasi

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I think they should take a break from giving us a lot of research to do, it’s a lot to do 3 to 4 papers and research in a week and they need to stop giving us a lot of work in class and homework to do after school, we already don’t have time left after school, we finish at 2:25 then we have work to do, we don’t have time for ourselves anymore. Please better the system, and not changing a lot of things it’s
tiring, and stop with the work over load it’s not doing anything for us it’s just giving us unnecessary stress. As teachers and parents you should know better.
Shamma almutaiwaei

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I've been struggling with the amount of work in class doesn't necessarily have to be homework it's the classwork. They give us a lot of work during class that eventually turns into after school work. and the amount of projects is too much like we just recently finished e-portfolios you would expect the teachers to go easy on the projects.
-Maitha