Preamble
When in the course of life events, it becomes necessary for students to get involved in sports and come out of their comfort zone. When we 're in involved in school we get more advantages and privileges for our future. A lot of students don’t join sports because they don 't have experience and they believe they won 't make the team. This encourages coaches to just choose returners because most of the times they become the coaches favorite players, although it shouldn 't be that way. This gives us the right, as students, to write our own Declaration of Independence for the rest of the world to understand why we should give an opportunity to those that have never played for the team.
Declaration of Student Rights
We hold these truths
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They expect us to have experience.
They expect us to have athletics after school, instead during our last period, how it used to be before.
They expect us to have a 2.0 without any F’s.
If we’re failing a class, they don 't allow us to go ask for help after school, it will have to be in our own time.
They expect us to be out in the field at a certain time knowing it takes us time to get stuff done and sometimes something gets in our way.
They are unfair and treat us differently as the returner players.
They only think about themselves instead of the whole team as well.
Statements of Prior Attempts to Redress Grievances
Even after all of this unfairness and mistreatment, we have explained how we felt to both our parents and coaches. However, our complaints don 't really matter to the teachers. We have even appealed to our school administrators, teammates, and friends from other schools, but our appeals have been ignored and we must now either find another solution ,protest as a whole school or separate ourselves from our school to become