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Ideally...

Ideally, with our anti school efforts, and with the future, school would become less fascist, and it would go more on our side.

But from what I can see, they're just getting worse. Kids today are even more stupid than they were 5 years ago. The news section is getting even more alarming. We need to start action NOW.
10-10-2007 01:59 AM
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What can we do? As you seen in the news it doesn't take much to get us arrested.
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Quote:Kids today are even more stupid than they were 5 years ago.

Maybe the extreme ones are... I doubt that the really smart ones buy into that stupidity though. They just need to know they're not alone... And yeah, it does seem to be ridiculously easy to get arrested, especially in the US. So you need to be careful over there... but at least they can't arrest you for just talking to people... yet. Razz
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Damnit. Hit reply instead of new.
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Yeah, I've been trying to think of something to say to the school board, as far as arguements go, to get the bookbag rule taken away.
Petition? vote?
Dunno, but something needs to be done.
And something is going to be done.

I could find a loophole to just have it done away with for myself, but the whole student body doesn't have back problems. :3
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I agree, but I'm still in the process of deciding what exactly to do. It's been hard to find anyone that agrees with me in my area because I know few people. Once I have things figured out a little more I can start by myself, but eventually having a lot of people involved will be important.

I might go back to school next semester. I don't really want to be there, but I can't get much done from at home.
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SoulRiser Wrote:but at least they can't arrest you for just talking to people... yet. Razz

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Lets do what the gays did...

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Even if we did, nobody would listen to us. Remember, adults think they're always right and they think we're just a bunch of stupid angry teenagers.
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