Meeting with the Cheeses: Round One

I had my first meeting with Mrs. Wolfson and Mr. Larsen today, and it did not go well.

My goals for the meeting:

1. Give them the date of the protest
2. Confirm posters
3. Confirm this blog
4. Run my estimate of participants by them

My accomplishments of the meeting:

1. Give them the date of the protest

When I got to the subject of posters (1 minute into meeting), I showed them a proposed design that contained nothing more than "Day of Silence," the blog website, and an anti-harassment slogan. Mrs. Wolfson barely glanced at the sheet of paper before dismissing it by saying, "I can't let you do that. There are laws against a school supporting anything political or controversial."

Really Mrs. Wolfson? There are laws that prohibit an anti-harassment, anti-bullying campaign, from advertising its cause? Really? I find it incomprehensible how that could be! It is the ethical and moral duty of an educator to promote a safe environment for all her students. If some are not being protected, it is the right of the student population to speak out against that. If the students are pro-actively taking up the responsibility to end harassment, end hazing (which is against the student conduct policy in your planner), and end bullying, who is the principal to stop them?

We, as the student body, should be able to do anything non-violent in our power to make our school a better environment, and if our own principal is hindering that movement, something is obviously wrong.