The school board wants to make our school days longer and go from block scheduling to having 7 classes per day. This is problematic for many reasons. NFMHS is a magnet school for a Arts and AICE and these programs need more than 45 minutes per class. Arts students will only have about 15 minutes of class after changing into uniform, setting up instruments, etc. Also, 7 periods a day means students will be forced to drop a class making it harder to achieve their AICE diplomas and balance out their schedules with enjoyable electives. 7 class days will also bring about much more homework. Students already struggle with extensive amounts of homework and this will only make it worse. Many students have jobs, sports, or activities that will make it impossible to complete a workload of that caliber. Furthermore, students doing part time Dual enrollment will not be able to do it anymore because college classes are over an hour which would require missing classes at school. Please consider signing this petition.