Deadline to Sign Petition for Later Start Time for High School is Wednesday.

Terra Snider's post on first appearing on Patch Oct. 13 garnered a strong reaction from Severna Park residents and others who have signed the online petition and also voted in the .

Snider said there are 1,000 signatures on the petition, however, 5,000 are needed by Nov. 2 for a White House response. Any resident age 13 and up can sign the petition.

If you support a later start time for high school students and haven’t signed the petition, you can do so at http://wh.gov/2qJ.

"Just sending a the link to 10 friends anywhere in the US and asking them to sign and send the link to 10 more, etc.—we could actually make this work," Snider said in a comment on Severna Park Patch. "I know everyone’s busy, but please consider how much good we could do if we all just took a few minutes.

"It would be such a shame to squander this opportunity to bring such a critical and longstanding issue to national attention."

Proving that there is power in numbers, an online petition titled "Taking Action to Reduce the Burden of Student Loan Debt" by Roberto Rodriguez, received an official White House response on the We the People website.

Snider also said there is also a new petition on the We the People website asking that the petitions be given more than 30 days. That petition expires on Thursday (Oct. 27). The link to that one is http://wh.gov/4NJ.

*Editor's Note: The headline was changed to reflect the correct deadline to sign the online petition, it is Wednesday, Nov. 2.