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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boxstop7" data-source="post: 509425" data-attributes="member: 8804">It never ceases to amaze me......how the bastion of ignorance prevails.  Here's another angle you may want to consider:  Ask your AP if she's planning on banning school plays and other productions.  If D&D is "evil", surely acting is "evil".  For what is D&D, really?  A bunch of people getting together for a session of improptu, albeit structured, acting.  Her objection has its roots in ignorance, and unfortunately the ignorant tend to cling to their bliss.  I agree with everyone else in that you're not likely to change HER opinion.  However, I think I can provide an anecdote that may offer another alternative...When I was in high school, our school board was overrun with fundamentalist conservative Christians (read: religious right, Pat Buchanon types).  These people were grade-A whack-jobs.  One board member took a black permanent marker to her son's fourth grade textbooks, blotting out any casual or overt reference to Darwn, evolution, the dinosaurs or dates prior to the birth of Christ, b/c they simply "never existed" and were "lies perpetuated by the minions of Satan to undermine God's good work".  She ignored the bevy of SCIENTIFIC evidence to the contrary, b/c scientists were also Satan's minions.  Another board member proposed (and nearly got passed) an amendment to the school charter stating that a family was "a man, married under God's grace, to a woman and their biological offspring".  This "family" was to be the only family type recognized by the school for PTA meetings, school board meetings, and pretty much anything else the school was involved in.  This meant that kids like me (divorced parents), kids who had been adopted, and kids living with other relatives were excluded from a lot of stuff, just b/c we didn't have a traditional nuclear family.What's the point of this babbling?  Easy enough.  After a very short while, we got sick of the board's antics.  Most of us (the student body) protested at school board meetings by lining up and speaking to the board and community.  A fairly large group of students staged a walk-out.  Parents were outraged.  The whole fiasco garnered attention from some national news sources (anyone local to the Harrisburg, PA area should remember the Eliabethtown school board incident from the mid-late 90's).  As the community banded together and the teachers threw in their support, we managed to force most of those board members to resign and rescind anything they had passed during their short tenure.  This is a battle you can win, but it won't be easy.  You've got to be diplomatic, well-informed, curteous and mature beyond your years if you want to make any headway.  Outfox the bear.  As others have said, make her play your game.  As was said before, being an angry kid will do nothing but undermine your goals.  She (and likely others around her) will be likely to pull rank with the "what do kids know...adults know best" crap.  Be patient, be vigilant, but be civil and play by ALL the rules of the system in which you're working.  If she's as bad as you say, and there's a lot of other people (teachers, parents, etc) who feel the same way, you may want to seek her resigntion if the consensus feels she's doing more harm than good.  But if you pursue this avenue, DO NOT pursue it on your grounds.  Seeking her resignation is something the parents and teachers must be responsible for.  Any attempt by you will be seen as just another pissed off teen who didn't get his way.  Then they'll start patting you down for weapons every day and making you learn and eat in isolation so you don't go postal on the rest of your school.  I sypmathize with you.  I truly do.  People fear what they don't understand.  We probably can't make them understand, and I don't know if I'd even want them to understand.  But we can make them see that we have th same rights and freedoms as they do.  Dogma often thinks it has more right than it does.  Tread lightly and gather support.  Be ready for a fight, but never lose your cool.  And keep us posted! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Best of luck, Trevalon!!~Box</blockquote>

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