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20 Jun 08
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Sheryl A. McCoyLINWOOD - For the second time in recent years, the final lesson learned by graduating students at Mainland Regional High School was that for high schoolers, freedom of speech doesn't fully apply.
This school seems to actually fit the profile of Ferris Beuller's parody high school.
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Is it legal to change the way class rankings are determined? It seems that the shool said it would not be fair if Jennifer's weighted honors grades were counted AFTER, the weighted grades were recorded.-
Rebecca Ann Ojserkis, whose mother Janice sits on the Board of Education.
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She also claimed that her request to start an Asian club wasn't granted for years, while similar requests from students with familial or other connections were immediately granted.
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As an example, she gave a group whose founder was Janice Ojserkis' nephew.
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"Every time you would go to the administration for help, they'd never listen to you," Chau said. "This is the way the school is. It's just the truth."
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At least one parent wanted to make her feelings known to the principal - and to Blake's chagrin, she did so in front of reporters.
"She should have been free to demonstrate Mainland's support for free speech," Susan Goodman-Jackson told Blake. "Then you'd be free to respond. It would demonstrate to the whole school and community that free speech is supported. It was wrong to cut her off."
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This isn't the first time Mainland has proved itself unpopular with those at the head of its graduating class. In 2006, Blake cut off valedictorian Kareem Elnahal after he began to criticize his "entirely hollow" education.
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