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Petition Type: New
ID: 10604
Submitted: May 31, 2023 at 11:24:02 PM
First Name: Trevor
Last Name: Sokolowski
Pronoun: He/Him
Preferred Name: Trevor
Student Number: 20061824
Email: 16ts51@queensu.ca
Degree Program: BSH
Plan: GPHY
Level of Study: 4
Petition Categories
Petition Categories: Request credit (CR) standing in a course or courses
Code: PHYS 216
Term: Winter
Year: 2022
Petition Category: Request credit (CR) standing in a course or courses
Instructor's Name: Sarah Sadavoy
Section/Class Number: --
Petition Letter
Petition Letter: May 21, 2023
Sokolowski, Trevor
27 Francis St
Kingston, ON K7M 1L8
Dear Associate Dean of Academics,
My name is Trevor Sokolowski and I am writing to Waive a Petition Deadline for my Appeal for Credit Standing of PHYS 216.
During the Winter 2022 semester courses were ran online and in-person due to frequent COVID-19 restrictions. A decision was made to spend more time at home due to the difficulties between certain family members. I experienced these struggles and tensions first hand and spent many hours talking, calming, and stressing among my family during the semester. This situation which started early in Winter 2022, spanned well into the Summer of 2022. Only in the final months of the summer, did my family feel to be in functioning order by understanding one another??s points of view, non-malicious intents, and proper communication amongst one another. With the fall semester just about to start, I hadn??t had much time to think about my previous poor performance that was heavily impacted in the last month from this very situation. While going through the Fall 2022 semester I stayed in contact with my brother (Jason) about the situation at home and found it had continued to be a healthy environment since the summer. With the grades returning from the Fall semester I had realized that I still had to work to bring my PHYS teachable GPA up in order to proceed to my B.Ed year. With the grades I had earned in the fall semester I believed I could repair the difficulties of the past (Winter 2022 - PHYS 216). I remained hopeful that my family would continue to thrive and stay healthy moving forward, but was not wholeheartedly convinced it could never happen again.
As my Winter 2023 semester completed and I look to graduate I find that my family has stayed strong and continue to foster a tension free understanding family. With the semester completed, I find myself never bringing this information forward due to the doubt that this family environment was entirely gone. I am relived that this family environment has not arose since. However, I appear I have waited too long to bring it to the attention of the Academic offices as I have passed the 1 Year Petition Deadline. The family tensions that worsened over the final months of the winter semester were not fully repaired until partway in the summer. Since this took an egregious amount of time to mend, I held doubts that this was the last I would deal with this situation and thus held out an academic appeal. With the knowledge I have now I am happy to say that this aggressive environment is well in the past with no signs of returning. I held out applying for this academic appeal in fear that it would return but am well at ease that it won??t. This situation is burdensome to bring forward as it is hard to put detail in resurfacing dark memories. I have refrained from sharing a lot of the impact, but if more is required I will discuss more.
Sincerely,
-Trevor Sokolowski
(20061824)
16ts51@queensu.ca
Sokolowski, Trevor
27 Francis St
Kingston, ON K7M 1L8
Dear Associate Dean of Academics,
My name is Trevor Sokolowski and I am writing to Waive a Petition Deadline for my Appeal for Credit Standing of PHYS 216.
During the Winter 2022 semester courses were ran online and in-person due to frequent COVID-19 restrictions. A decision was made to spend more time at home due to the difficulties between certain family members. I experienced these struggles and tensions first hand and spent many hours talking, calming, and stressing among my family during the semester. This situation which started early in Winter 2022, spanned well into the Summer of 2022. Only in the final months of the summer, did my family feel to be in functioning order by understanding one another??s points of view, non-malicious intents, and proper communication amongst one another. With the fall semester just about to start, I hadn??t had much time to think about my previous poor performance that was heavily impacted in the last month from this very situation. While going through the Fall 2022 semester I stayed in contact with my brother (Jason) about the situation at home and found it had continued to be a healthy environment since the summer. With the grades returning from the Fall semester I had realized that I still had to work to bring my PHYS teachable GPA up in order to proceed to my B.Ed year. With the grades I had earned in the fall semester I believed I could repair the difficulties of the past (Winter 2022 - PHYS 216). I remained hopeful that my family would continue to thrive and stay healthy moving forward, but was not wholeheartedly convinced it could never happen again.
As my Winter 2023 semester completed and I look to graduate I find that my family has stayed strong and continue to foster a tension free understanding family. With the semester completed, I find myself never bringing this information forward due to the doubt that this family environment was entirely gone. I am relived that this family environment has not arose since. However, I appear I have waited too long to bring it to the attention of the Academic offices as I have passed the 1 Year Petition Deadline. The family tensions that worsened over the final months of the winter semester were not fully repaired until partway in the summer. Since this took an egregious amount of time to mend, I held doubts that this was the last I would deal with this situation and thus held out an academic appeal. With the knowledge I have now I am happy to say that this aggressive environment is well in the past with no signs of returning. I held out applying for this academic appeal in fear that it would return but am well at ease that it won??t. This situation is burdensome to bring forward as it is hard to put detail in resurfacing dark memories. I have refrained from sharing a lot of the impact, but if more is required I will discuss more.
Sincerely,
-Trevor Sokolowski
(20061824)
16ts51@queensu.ca
Documentation
Professional Letter: Distance and Triage 20061824.pdf
Professional Letter Detail: NO DOC