Greetings fellow humans, I attend a small middle school in a small town in a somewhat small state. At this school, we are forced to comply by the rules of the Accelerated Reader program, a program that gives us reading levels and point goals, and we read books to reach our goals within 9 weeks. It's an awful program. When coming to the school last year and discovering the software, I asked fellow classmates what they thought about it. A majority of the answers I recieved stated that the program had taken the fun out of reading, making us read books only because of their points, and limiting us to a short list. We think we deserve what little freedom we can get, and it starts with our books. Faculty control where we go, what we eat, where we sit, when to talk and we barely complain. But getting in the way of a young person's literature is not something to easily get away with. That's why, with what support I can manage, I want to take down the program, and let us have our books, and let us discover the world by ourselves. Signing this probably won't help us, but it could be a first step toward change.