Be True To Your School: A Reprise
Oct. 19th, 2007 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beatriceeagleUPDATE: We made the local news. School should be interesting on Monday.
Oh god, my school's going to explode.
If you read the post immediately preceding this one, you know about all the controversy surrounding Fresh Friday. If you didn't, either go read it now, or skip this post, because they're pretty closely linked.
Today, a bunch of kids from Sharpsburg (one of the poorer municipalities) staged a walk-out. They got about forty (that's the only estimate I've gotten, but whatever the number, it was a significant amount) kids to walk out of school in the middle of the day. Most of them just walked out onto the football field, although a small group walked around the school banging on doors and such on their way out.
The school got wind of this before it happened, and posted teachers at the exits to the school about halfway through, but it didn't really work.
And now, all the kids who dressed up are pissed off. Really pissed off. And they're being absolutely hateful. On the bus home, I heard:
"They're just doing it to get out of class. They all cut class anyway."
"They probably all went to Little Russia and got cigs." (Little Russia is a long story that I won't get into.)
"We had a sub during that class, so my class just went over the window and started shouting 'fuck you' at them. [Name Omitted] spit at them."
And, in reference to the original meetings and speeches:
"Oh, 'we all come from broken homes?' Not up here we don't."
"So you've been working since you were thirteen? That's your problem."
My reactions?
Wow. Forty kids is a lot.
Walk-out = good idea. Banging on doors = maybe less good idea.
People on my bus = worst people I've ever met.
My sister thinks they're going to punish all the people walked out. (They made the teachers take roll.) I wouldn't be surprised, but I think it would make everything worse.
Oh god, my school's going to explode.
If you read the post immediately preceding this one, you know about all the controversy surrounding Fresh Friday. If you didn't, either go read it now, or skip this post, because they're pretty closely linked.
Today, a bunch of kids from Sharpsburg (one of the poorer municipalities) staged a walk-out. They got about forty (that's the only estimate I've gotten, but whatever the number, it was a significant amount) kids to walk out of school in the middle of the day. Most of them just walked out onto the football field, although a small group walked around the school banging on doors and such on their way out.
The school got wind of this before it happened, and posted teachers at the exits to the school about halfway through, but it didn't really work.
And now, all the kids who dressed up are pissed off. Really pissed off. And they're being absolutely hateful. On the bus home, I heard:
"They're just doing it to get out of class. They all cut class anyway."
"They probably all went to Little Russia and got cigs." (Little Russia is a long story that I won't get into.)
"We had a sub during that class, so my class just went over the window and started shouting 'fuck you' at them. [Name Omitted] spit at them."
And, in reference to the original meetings and speeches:
"Oh, 'we all come from broken homes?' Not up here we don't."
"So you've been working since you were thirteen? That's your problem."
My reactions?
Wow. Forty kids is a lot.
Walk-out = good idea. Banging on doors = maybe less good idea.
People on my bus = worst people I've ever met.
My sister thinks they're going to punish all the people walked out. (They made the teachers take roll.) I wouldn't be surprised, but I think it would make everything worse.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-10-19 08:02 pm (UTC)oh my god, I don't even know who's on your bus and I hate them. I'm also pissed at the school for how they're handling this. It'd be different if this didn't happen like 2 times before it'd be a different story, but those kids should get suspended in school or detention or anything for that matter. This probably sounds stupid of me, but they could really just sew the kids who dressed up like that.
holly poop, 40 kids is a hell of a lot. especially for something like that.
and you're right. explosion. that a really accurate way to put it. Casi and I think a riot is about to break out or something.
no subject
Date: 2007-10-19 08:06 pm (UTC)And yeah. Our dear school is on the verge of insanity.
no subject
Date: 2007-10-19 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-19 10:04 pm (UTC)On your other post, you asked if this is a socio-economic issue or a clique issue. I'd say it depends on who you ask.
My school had a similar issue, and really, a lot of the "poorer" kids were still friends with the "richer" kids. It really was about cliques more than anything else - what you said, etc.
But you did still have snobbery, and I do sometimes think the kids from less wealthy famillies were foils for a lot of the kids - they acted up in class when the upper class kids were expected to be in every sport and have good GPAs. So they, of course, couldn't, but the kids who were "supposed" to do it did it for them. Same with a lot of the kids with learning and emotional disabilities - they could call the teacher a bitch and they'd be able to eat wth the 3.5-4.0 kids/soccer kids/rich kids (they weren't always one and the same, often they weren't) at lunch. Sure, there were genuine friendships and not everyone fit a stereotype (I certainly didn't fit mine), but enough did that I'm sure there was frustration. So maybe the same would've happened?
It is an awkward situation, for sure. And the people on your bus... god. I would've told them that to someone out there, they are rats. Economics is relative.
no subject
Date: 2007-10-21 01:47 am (UTC)HEY
Date: 2007-10-23 01:03 am (UTC)the fanpop one is just the first half again
Re: HEY
Date: 2007-10-23 03:15 am (UTC)Re: HEY
Date: 2007-10-23 02:17 pm (UTC)thanks