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Make your school board listen by throwing grapes at them
Filed under: Day Care & Education
Whenever I talk to older friends about their dealings with the school board, I get more or less the same response: "It's tough." And really, that's not surprising -- what are the odds that a handful of people, with incredibly limited resources, who are required to come to a consensus, are going to make decisions that any one person agrees with?
But the frustration got to be too much for Agnes Hitchcock. After her school board voted to close 34 Detroit city schools, the concerned citizen attacked them all with grapes.
Police eventually removed Hitchcock from the auditorium, and she was later convicted of disturbing the peace, fined $250, and sentenced to unsupervised probation.
However, the fruit-throwing activist says it was all worth it, because she was subsequently able to talk to a judge about mismanagement in the school district.
I suppose that's one way to get your voice heard.
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11-09-2007 @ 1:50PM
kthomp1 said...I think better yet I know that this is the most ridiculous disciplinary act for a school official to charge a child with an honest act of affection towards a friend. Remember when you were a kindergartner and you were taught the difference between good touch and bad touch, and that if someone wanted to hug you they would have to ask permission to do so. Obviously, this person didn't mind the hug because it was an innocent act of affection between two friends. Sometimes, adults take innocent actions that kids do because their mind is in the trash. Stealing a childs innocence is the worst thing any adult could do. And, to punish them also. Also, giving her detention which served as a second offense when she didn't even know she committed the first offense. I think that the school should be responsible for going over every rule with the student and parents, and then have them sign to show that they have been made aware of such rules.
Sincerely,
thisisabsolutelyridiculous
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