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The pain is real and the helplessness is real. Please attend the Board Meeting TODAY at 5.45 pm and voice your concerns. If you have any stories on how IS has impacted your STEM hopes and dreams, please share it on this petition under comments. Inexperienced Teachers, useless books, and a...

Thank you everyone for your support. Our request is to: 1)      Stop/Remove/Make Integrated Science 3 optional for everyone. 2)      Remove/Make Integrated Science 1 and 2 optional for everyone. 3)      Provide access on campus at Northwood High School to take basic Biology, Physics and...

There are two really important topics for consideration in this thread. The first is concerns integrated versus traditional science courses. It has been my experience that this issue will always be hotly contested, and that's fine. There should be meetings involving students, teachers, parents...

The following excerpt was written for Northwood?s student newspaper, but it?s publication was subsequently banned.  It was co-authored by Northwood?s Student of the Year: Despite the almost-singular drive of Northwood students to ?get into a good college,? it turns out that Northwood High...

This Petition is not about requesting 2 or more AP classes. It?s basically about the Integrated Sciences approach in NHS , this newly mandatory Integrated Science 3 and more importantly, the future of our children in NHS. Yes Integrated Science has been implemented since 1999 but does that mean...

Leslie Roach implemented a sudden and drastic curriculum change affecting many next-year Juniors.  Students and parents are very upset about being required to take IS3 if they are science-driven in their course selection.  The fact that virtually NO ONE wants to take IS 3 speaks volumes about...

Principal Leslie Roach and Integrated Science at Northwood High are joined at the hip. You have to remove one if you want to remove the other.  We wouldn't have started this petition had a previous Student created petition to remove Integrated Science with 400 signatures was asked to be taken...