Dear Randy and members of the Playwickian staff:

After reading your editorial of March 16, 2001 and hearing about the signs that magically appeared at the pep rally it brings to mind another person who started a similar form of protest. Henry David Thoreau wrote about “Civil Disobediance” in his famous essay of the same name. In this essay (which you learned about in Mrs. Kramer’s class) he discussed passive protest. His philosophies were so respected that Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. adopted them in their request for reconnection of their causes.
With violence on the rise, especially school violence (Playwickian, March 16) it is refreshing to see students using their brains and not their brawn. Non- violent resistance is a positive form of expression. A form, which gets the attention needed without anyone being injured. We as a culture, need to remember that it is all right to “resist what you do not support, even if you are in the minority”, but to use non-violence to make it happen. Congradulations Playwickian Staff for showing all of us that we can still object and resist and not use force to do so.

Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Donna P. Kramer
Sandburg Middle School