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So, we finally updated. Yes, it took far too long, no it won't happen again. Arthur's already like half done with the next one. In a completely unrelated note, Liberty High School is run by the stupidest people Washington has to offer. We currently have a block schedule, which gives us a total of eight class periods. This is invaluable. It lets our freshmen take orchestra, PE, Japanese, Art 1, and Software tech. It gives us a level of enrichment that would otherwise be impossible. The administration wants to change this (Link). Interestingly, they're the only people who want to change this. The students, teachers, and parents are entiely against it. In fact, most of the teachers have taken time out of class to explain why this really shouldn't happen. The only hope we have is for people to get involved, to write letters to the paper, to make and sign petitions, to put up signs, and tell other people about it. Apathy is our enemy's greatest ally. They're hoping that students (especially Juniors and Seniors) will assume that they can't do anything about it, that we're just stupid, powerless kids, that we don't care about things that will have little effect on us. We need to show them that they can't do shit like this. The school needs to be working for the students, not actively preventing them from taking classes they want to take and learning things that aren't on the WASL. You notice they post this late in the year? About the time we're expected to be busiest? Or how they're bringing it into effect after the people who are upperclassmen graduate? They're scared of us. They know that we can fix it and they're doing everything in their power to stop us before we get started.
- Parker Sipe
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