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Here’s the story that’ll be running in tomorrow’s Reidsville Review about the meeting this coming Monday night of the Rockingham County Board of Education. It’s widely expected that the public comments portion of the night will be dominated by P.O.T.S.M.O.D.: People Opposed To Standard Mode Of Dress, the group that’s fighting the mandatory uniforms at Reidsville Middle and Reidsville High schools this coming school year.

Here’s part of the story…

Monday, POTSMOD plans to attend wearing costumes and black armbands to show its opposition to school uniforms. Former school board candidate Chris Knight said he will attend the meeting dressed as a Jedi knight to get the board’s attention.

“It’s a result of this past meeting where the public comments section was dominated by opposition to uniforms,” Knight said. “But the board ignored our concerns.”

Samantha Fettig, a parent involved with POTSMOD, said she felt the board scoffed at people’s

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There’s apparently starting to be some interest in the stating of my intentions a few days ago that I would address the Rockingham County Board of Education at its July 9th meeting… fully costumed as a Jedi Knight. The only thing that I am leaving off the ensemble is my lightsaber. For one thing, I am being extremely cautious in adhering to the school system’s weapons policy: even though this is not a functional weapon by any means, I’m not taking chances. For all intents and purposes, this is simply a “different” mode of attire than what you usually see at a school board meeting. As it is, I don’t see this being construed as a special circumstance, and I’m not going to intentionally make it one, either.

Besides, I have something much better than a lightsaber that I intend to take with me. You could say that I will ...

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And I invite anyone else who wants to protest the board’s indifference toward us on the school uniforms issue to likewise come dressed as outrageously as they wanna be (within reason of course).

I had originally thought to come to the meeting wearing V’s costume from V for Vendetta, but won’t do that out of respect for public safety concerns. That, and because it would be really hard to speak to the board from behind a Guy Fawkes mask.

Please, if you want to join along with this protest, do not wear something that has a full-face mask.

The board – for the most part anyway – is not listening to us. They apparently paid not one whit of attention to what we had to say to them when we spoke during public comments at Monday night’s meeting.

Even if they refuse to pay attention to our words, we ...

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Remember this lady? It’s Shirley Phelps-Roper. It will be a year ago next week that she and her family – the infamous Westboro Baptist Church – visited the TV station that I worked at. This is that “God hates fags church” that does those rabid anti-homosexual protests… most of them quite bizarre and all of them crossing the boundary of good taste. If you missed that report when it was filed last year, mash that link down for some truly disturbing photos along with my account of what happened that night during my close encounter with “the Phelps family”.

Well, Shirley Phelps-Roper has been arrested in Bellevue, Nebraska: charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor after her 8-year old son stomped on an American flag during a soldier’s funeral.

Here’s the story from WMUR:

Boy Stomps Flag At Funeral, Mom Arrested

Pair Are Part Of Anti-Gay

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