Students plan day-long jacket-wearing to protest school temperature
A group of ten students declared Thursday that they would be holding a protest against the freezing temperatures in school hallways sometime next month by wearing their jackets for the entire school day. "Too long have we endured the bitter cold as we trudge from classroom to classroom! We must put a stop to this!" the group's leader declared. "I call on every student to wear his or her full winter jacket to school on a soon to be annouced date. " Most students seemed receptive to the idea. "Spending four minutes in 40 degree weather as we run from class to class? That's practically enough to cause hypothermia!" one student commented. "I know jackets are supposed to be illegal in class, but would any teacher have the heart to stop me from being warm?" Administration officials were ambivalent at best. A boiler room custodial assistant commented, "So they're going to wear jackets. Who cares?"
Some students fear that the day long protest may needlessly showcase the economic situations of students. Said one concerned student, "if one student's struting around in a nice Gore-Tex parka, and another kid is wearing some hand-me-down WMS hoodie, how is that going to make the poorer student feel? Surely there is a better way."