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Fayetteville High School lets military recruiters put fliers on the bulletin boards there. I heard about this, and when I was there a few days before school started I posted an anti-recruitment flier beside the recruiters' flier on two bulletin boards I saw. Here's what I posted.

Now I hear that my anti-recruitment fliers are gone, but the US military's fliers are still there. Not being a high school student, it is inappropriate for me to go there every day and replace them (or respond in kind by tearing down the recruiters' fliers.) This is a job for peacenik high school students!

Does anyone know any students who would be interested in countering the military recruiters' propaganda? All it entails is printing out the flier from the link above (or creating his/her own), and being intrepid enough to post them as necessary.

You might contact Robert Neralich and ask him if he knows someone who could help you. (He's a very popular (among the students, not the administration) teacher there)

Have you written your flyer out as a letter to the editor for the paper? It would be interesting to see if they'd print it (you'd have to condense it a bit, of course).

Betsy wrote:You might contact Robert Neralich and ask him if he knows someone who could help you. (He's a very popular (among the students, not the administration) teacher there)

DOUG
I thought they didn't renew his contract. That's what I heard, that the admnistration was under pressure to get rid of him because some parents were PO'd at his address at the graduation. He made the students think.

He got that straightened out and he's back on the faculty. I think enough people threw a fit about what a railroad job he was getting.

His speech at the graduation was AWESOME. I gave him a standing ovation, along with about 20% of the rest of the audience. A few other people booed and shouted bad words. Most people probably didn't pay attention.

Betsy wrote:He got that straightened out and he's back on the faculty. I think enough people threw a fit about what a railroad job he was getting.

His speech at the graduation was AWESOME. I gave him a standing ovation, along with about 20% of the rest of the audience. A few other people booed and shouted bad words. Most people probably didn't pay attention.

Now I'm really curious what he said

I'd like to have a transcript of the speech, too, it was so great.

Basically, his point was to encourage the graduating seniors to go out into the world and be "controversial." He talked about how the school and our society and our present governmental administration frowns upon being "controversial" -- how you're supposed to just follow the party line or the corporate line or the fundamentalist religion line without making any waves, and how that is NOT leading a valuable life. That the greatest people in history were considered "controversial" -- including Jesus himself, as well as naming several others - and how THOSE are the people who made great changes for the better in the world. He went into some specific current policies that are detrimental to our society but that people just follow because that's what they're told to follow, or because they're closed minded bigots, and that's when people started booing and saying "get him off the stage!" and stuff like that. But what he was saying was RIGHT ON.

He is a GREAT man, and I'm glad he's at the high school opening minds. He had a great influence on my own daughter, who was graduating and who had taken a class from him (and who of course already had the benefit of learning to be an open minded individual from, you know, ME). For the school administration to try and get rid of him flies in the face of everything that he spoke of in his speech (which I'm sure a lot of his point, as well)