If you do not know, I go to a high school.
And now you do.
This High School had a change in administration this year. The new principal has adopted several new policies that adversely affect both students and teachers. For example, teachers are not allowed to stay in school for more than 30 minutes after school is dismissed (it supposedly helps the janitors). Students are forbidden from entering the library before 7:20 (10 minutes before first period begins, also assuming that the librarians aren't incompetent). I could go on about mid-term exemptions, the cutting of all languages other than French and Italien, etc, but I'll save space. Nobody likes the actions that the administration is taking. However, one of these policies prevents protest. The policy, copied word for word from a school handbook, reads as follows:
Insubordination: Any student disobeying a direct order from any member of the school staff will be suspended indefinately.
This applies to any order given, even if two orders are conflicting. As of the half-year, 40 of 3000 students have been suspended on this policy simply for raising mild dissent among the school, ie, questioning the principal. The teachers cannot raise objection, either; one long-standing teacher (I believe that they were teaching for 20 years) was fired for just that reason.
The administration has also handled school events poorly. We had one "code blue lockdown", where students were instructed to lock all doors, close all windows, and move into the center of the rooms. Nobody knew that a code blue was a drug search as they have not explained the emergency key. Many thought that some cataclysmic event had befallen the school, another egregious oversight that said incompetent rulers did not think of or address.
We have had 3 bomb scares. Had they been real threats, a large population of the school would be dead. On one day, a bomb threat was phoned in within the school's first period, but we were not evacuated from the building for 2 hours. In another incident, there were claims that the cafeteria had been rigged to a remote detonator, and again the reaction was slow. In a final incident, someone wrote "bomb" on a piece of paper and left it on the principal's desk. The school was flushed out in 10 minutes.
I have contacted the superintendant, who sees nothing wrong with the problem. I see no way to revoke the policies without getting expelled. It's martial law. I can either accept it or leave, but I wish to do neither because I have friends in the school. The one option that I see open is to write an editorial for submission to the local papers, but the school is somehow recognised as high-achieving. Probably because the administration cuts corners to make things easier, in a bad way, for students (example, if you have greater than a C for a semester, you don't have to take a midterm or final).
What should I do to remove the unjust decisions made by the incompetent school officials without being suspended?
