Olean High School Student get Detention for Hanging Peace Sign

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Reposted from Rochester Homeschool List
 

 
This weekend I met a young man, Jeff Chandler, at a workshop on counseling conscientious objecters. He received detention for hanging posters in his high
 
school, Olean High School. The posters, copied on regular copy paper, had a peace sign in the middle with messages surrounding it: pro-peace, anti-war,
 
give peace a chance, etc. Jeff had asked teachers if they objected to him hanging posters near their rooms first.
 

 
The administration of the school has given Jeff detention for hanging the posters. You can call or write the school at the following addresses/numbers:
 

 

 
Olean High School
 
410 West Sullivan Street
 
Olean NY 14760
 
Principal:
 
Barbara Lias
 
716-375-8012
 

 
Vice Principal:
 
Jeffrey Andreano (I believe this is the guy who
 
punished Jeff with detention)
 
716-375-8028
 

 
Jeff is asking that people complain that his rights have been infringed, not that they demand that he be released from detention. He is looking forward to sitting in the detention hall making more posters.
 

 
At the same meeting, I met a teen from Newfield High School who will be serving detention for his participation in the walk-out last week. Newfield has assigned detention to all students who were involved.
 

 
Pass this on, please. Students have virtually no rights in public schools. Time to change that.