State of the People

Maybe you haven't made an actual move to depose Madren because you didn't understand the meaning of the first paper.  Honestly it was intentionally abstract.   Here is the plain words version of it.

October 8th, Madren forced a group of students to move from an open grassy area before school.  She said that they shouldn't be there and the fact that they were laying down made her nervous.  However, the school planner (which contains a full list of sahs rules and regulations) defines off limits areas as the parking lots, woods, stadium, auditorium, teachers lounge and workrooms.  The students were in an open grassy area, easily seen by most of the campus; they were not in a restricted area.  Further, she made one of the students dump out a fresh hot cup of coffee.  I'm sure many of us have been made to pour out or throw away our drinks recently.  However the administrator in question is known to carry a cup of coffee and often has a cup of starbucks in her office.  If you ever get called up to her office in the morning, ask her what gives her the right to bring drinks on campus and not us.  Isn't she supposed to set an example for the students?   And if we are able to get beverages from no other source than the school cafeteria, is that not a monopoly set in place by our government?

Here I restate my three important questions from the earlier paper:  1) should we obey such an obviously corrupt, tyrannical, and hypocritical leader?   2) If our coffee was against school policy, then should the same rules not apply to Madren?  3) Should we so willingly abandon a spot of land we are so basely promised in school documents when we as the students of the "free" world have unalienable and universal right to it?

There are times in our lives when, to avoid oppression and maintain our rights, we must stand up to those who oppress us.  However, in this case it would be very difficult to oppose our oppressor directly.

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”  --  from the US Declaration of Independence

What we must do now is go over her head and to our ex-principal turned superintendent, Kent Byrd.  He has the power to get her fired and as our superintendent he has a duty to us the students and not our despotic figurehead.  If we the people go to him in great numbers, if only to report our concern with her largely inappropriate actions, then perhaps we will see a day without her.  Other than this we have only one remaining option to rid ourselves of her, and that is to drop out of school, which I do not recommend.

Speaking of dropping out I have come to an issue I hadn't covered before, dropout rates.  Recent estimates tell us that as many people have dropped out of this school in the last six weeks than did in all of last year.  And a majority of these students are not the "I'm sick of school" types we all know, but normally hard working students who could no longer function as students under Madren's despotism.  

If at all possible, I encourage any readers to get in touch with any possible media (TV news, newspaper, independent papers) sources and bring this information to their attention to our plight.  This would bring country wide attention to our situation and raise the pressure of Byrd to fire Madren.