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> My general take on student protests are that they generally consist of two or three kids who *truly* believe in whatever cause they are demonstrating for, and a whole slew of tag-alongs who will dissapear as soon as something more fun comes up, or the going gets a little tough. And in general, they accomplish approximately nothing.
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> -- Dave

While we're sharing stupid protest stories... at the end of my sophomore year in high school, two years ago, the administration decided to abolish the seventh period due to lack of funding (it still exists now at my school as an option taken by ~20% of the students, but it's dying, and the counselors discourage it). This had been an issue for the past three years at least, and there had been several school board meetings (open to the public) during the past month discussing the proposal. Almost no one showed up at those. After it was all over and the decision was final, that's when someone decides to hold a "sit-in".

Wait, it gets worse. The masterminds behind this little protest have planned nothing more than getting everyone out of class during first period to go sit in the commons with much screaming and whining should an administrator happen past them. A few went down to the school board building and made noise outside. From what I hear they put up a few posters and sang a few songs outside that had nothing to do with anything, and after 20 minutes of this the deans came out (with police backup) and said that anyone who wasn't in class in 5 minutes had Saturday school. The five hundred students walked back to class, with of course the odd few getting Saturday school, but just the regulars.

The two dozen at the school board building made the local news. Once you heard them speak, you knew that seven periods of schooling hadn't been doing them a bit of good up until that point and there was no reason it was going to anytime in the near future.

Me, I sat in class and did nothing with the 8 others who were left and we protested the sit-in. :-P

Nothing was accomplished by this whatsoever, of course.

-Fob"yawn"ulis