I wish I had thought of this in high school. What I a great way to protest. About 29 kids at Readington Middle School, New Jersey decided to protest the short lunch period by paying for their lunch in pennies. Yep, entirely in pennies. That would be 200 pennies per person that cafeteria workers had to count. Brilliant!The downside is that the group apparently caused some students to go without lunch that day, which is just a confirmation of how short the lunch time must be.
The prank also got its participants two days' detention. I'm a little torn on that. The students didn't break any rules. They offered legal tender. They only inconvenienced some school employees. At the same time, they inconvenienced some other students who didn't get lunch. Everyone needs to get a healthy lunch (such as it is in public schools). So I think maybe they could use the detention time to think of ways to express their concerns that won't hurt fellow students.
I still thing the protest was brilliant. I was friends with some of the creative, rebellious types, but being the oldest child in my family I was just a little too, um, "follow the rules"to think of something like this. I'm not saying I wouldn't go along with this stunt, I just wouldn't have thought of it.
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3-03-2008 @ 12:09PM
alex.krasnov said...
It would be brilliant if it targeted the right people. This inconveniences the cafeteria workers and other students, not the administrators that decide how long lunch is.
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3-03-2008 @ 12:24PM
pat said...
students were given a reprieve-
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj-odd--payingwithpen0302mar02,0,7058479.story
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3-03-2008 @ 12:25PM
pat said...
students were given a reprieve-
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj-odd--payingwithpen0302mar02,0,7058479.story
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3-03-2008 @ 1:07PM
Bear Silber said...
Genius, pure genius. I love when people come up with clever ways to express their disagreements. I know it affected some of the other kids but the school should have listened to and worked with them prior to this. Truly awesome.
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3-03-2008 @ 1:24PM
Ima Wurdibitsch said...
Those kids should receive extra credit for exercising their right to peacefully protest!
Brilliant.
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3-03-2008 @ 1:29PM
Kristi said...
"Beatings will continue until morale improves".
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3-03-2008 @ 1:30PM
alex.krasnov said...
It would have been brilliant if it had targeted the right people. The kids inconvenienced the cafeteria workers and other students, not the administrators that determine how long lunch is. There is no reason to make the lunch ladies' day more difficult.
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3-03-2008 @ 5:43PM
Tempered Woman said...
well I was never that creative in school- I think they are brilliant. They protested without doing anything illegal or against the rules! We should all be so smart.
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