[lowbridge]

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http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=kwerky

Video of WGSR interview about the July 9th "costume party" protest

I will wear my Jedi costume to the July 9th meeting of the Rockingham County Board of Education to protest the uniforms

[theFIRMbss]

>I intend to wear a full Jedi Knight costume to the meeting

Police have my okay
to Taser such people and
shoot them when they're down.

[PAR35]

I personally think that uniforms make a lot of sense at the middle school level for government schools. There’s always home schooling or private schools if you want to dress geto.

[Spktyr]

Good. Uniforms should be mandatory at all public schools.

Don’t like it? Take your kid to a private school or home school them.

[Hydroshock]

Stupidity is strong with these youn Padawans.

[Darth Sidious]

Here's the full report of what happened, including photos and links to YouTube clips of the newscast segments covering the story.

The board voted 7-3 (and 2 abstentions) to completely rescind their vote in April to implement the school uniforms. It's now entirely off the table.

In addition to the Jedi costume, one student came dressed in prison stripes and dozens of other parents and students wore black armbands to protest the uniforms.

I agree with what one of the board members who had changed her mind said: this was a tremendous experience for the young people to have gone through, because they learned a LOT about how government works and how they too have a role to play in it.

So, we won. "The Force was with us" :-)