Middle School Students ARRESTED For Protesting Dress Code

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Four middle school students in Vancouver, Washington, were arrested for leading protests against a new school dress code.

Doesn't calling the cops seem a little extreme for a peaceful sit-in?

Hey, Principal Mike Stromme: Shouldn't your name be Mike Stormtrooper? Sieg heil, motherf*cker!

So much for the freedom to speak out! So much for the freedom to be different.

I guess if you're a Goth or an Emo student at this school, you aren't as equal as everyone else.

Guess they're trying to teach 'em early these days what happens when you question authority. Just training them for the future of Bush/McCain America, where protesters will be declared enemy combatants and locked in cages.

My wife, a former middle-school teacher, can't believe the school administration is so clueless as to throw away this opportunity for a valuable, real-life civics lesson -- to let these kids learn about the value of nonviolent civil protest, mutual respect, and earnest negotiation to come to a compromise. Spontaneous teaching moments such as these are what GOOD teachers hope and live for.

Instead, Principal Stormtrooper apparently prefers to impart the lesson "Might is right" to these malleable young minds.

The crucial question is, are we trying to teach these kids how to be compliant, submissive drones? Or are we trying to truly educate them by teaching them to think for themselves?

Principal Mike Stormtrooper, I have an assignment for you. You, sir, really need to read Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"...

Class dismissed!

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[jadegirl3331]

dear school,

fuck you:)

[Staremonemesis]

Surgedark go fuck yourself.

[13Musicmachine]

ROCK AND ROLL!!! that's how ye do it!

[bloodsord9]

Comunism it is! Very true. And not going to school... since when is it a crime??? Government is fucked up...

[TheUbercharge1]

COMMUNIST!!!

[cheesetaco6926]

@Jean0987654321 hey dick, i am in college. i see my incorrect grammar and i am not going to do anything about it so cry me a river.

[LOLcat901]

since when was not going to class a crime

[BigClubPenguinFan300]

who fucking cares about dress code i wear: i <3 boobies bracelets and i dont get in trouble i mean really! :|

[Jean0987654321]

@cheesetaco6926 i guess you're a dropout

[cheesetaco6926]

@Jean0987654321 lemme guess, your in middle school?

[xXHardc0rExFaNXx1]

And don't you just love it how they only talk about it for about 30 seconds like they don't even give a shit!