Also, children who question the school's authority disappear for days and when they return they are never the same.

MM I support your plight and everything but vandalizing Wikipedia isn't a way to get the message across - it's two seconds for a Wikipedia moderator who isn't even a member of the school to revert it back.

I mean shit remember when someone deleted all of CoM:CoL on Nuklearpedia? Same thing.

Really if you want change you gotta get involved.

So you're saying I need to vandalize an American History textbook to say this instead?

EDIT: Sorry, this is just the kind of thing I come up with after reading MLIA all day.

I think you need to sit down for a minute, man. Seriously, editing a wiki page is highly unlikely to do anything except get you in trouble if they so much as want to pin it on you with no proof. I had a friend get suspended for an entire semester and barred from coming in 50 feet of school grounds for the duration because my district pinned an Internet bomb threat on him that wasn't even his. The only reason it stuck was because he was friends with another friend of mine who'd caused them trouble and was "expelled" (I put in quotes because they totally threw out the process and basically told him he was and not to come back). If a school wants to screw with you, they can quite easily.

Not that I expect anyone to notice, but if you're making yourself a problem in general, they're going to want to make you go away any way they can get away with.

Well, mostly the problem now is that there are only really 5 ways "through the system" to change something like this.

1. Student Government
2. Mass numbers of students
3. Mass numbers of angry parents
4. Threats of legal action
5. Going directly to their superiors.

Problems with these are:
1. We have no student government to speak of
2. The student body is too content to conform and I'm not the most charismatic person anyway, so if someone is going to pull some viva la revolution mass revolt, it won't be me.
3. While some parents are pissed off about the stupid attitude the school has, many more are too complacent to care in the least about what their children do or the quality of their education.
4. Legal action does very little unless the school does something so blatantly terribly wrong as to physically harm a student or some such, considering school uniform lawsuits have been favoring uniforms since the dawn of time.
5. The only people my school answers to are the parish school board, who are just as bad/even worse.

There really isn't a whole lot I can do at this point except joke about vandalizing a web page.

Get enough people to file petty charges, like over your class and similar, and things can snowball from there. One person CAN convince others to take such action, especially if they've stepped over the line, like my district did with my friends. Actually, the one they "expelled" made it his personal duty to go around the area and start collecting evidence, but I don't know how far he got. It's even easier when people see other people doing it.

Dude, chill out it's High School. Trust me, not worth it, so many more important things to bitch about.

The interesting thing about that is, you don't really have to rally people to you as to your cause. So, if there's a lot of student dissatisfaction, you can probably use that.

These are teenagers we are talking about, the most rebellious group of society. They live to cause shit for adults.

So, trying to better a school environment for both himself and others isn't worth bitching about?

Shit, taking action now can have far reaching consequences in the future! If MM does decide to stand up and do something about this, the impact may be small right now, but if you get enough people stirred up and irritated by this, things could very well change for the better (The only thing I could possibly see as getting worse at this point is if they start getting into downright tyrannical bullshit, which would get them shut down as a school district).

I for one think public education in America is enough of a joke without treating it as such. My kids are going to private school or we're moving the hell out of America.