Nothing Like a Good High School Protest
By: Mr. Wilson on
February 29, 2008
Ahh, high school protests. Is there anything like the atmosphere you get when you combine a save-the-world attitude with the opportunity to cut class for a good (or "good") cause? A couple hundred Lincoln High students protested the removal of some trees yesterday by walking out. But best of all:
They formed a raucous circle in front of the school and sang “Kumbaya” and “Lean On Me.”Awesome. No high school protest is complete without a round or two of Kumbaya. Now, I know it sounds like I'm mocking these students. I am. Teenagers express themselves in goofy ways, and this, to me, is one example. But darn it, the high school protest is a right of passage. It's practically a requirement to graduate. I just wish they could have picked a problem with public education that's a bit more, I don't know, substantial.