If there are more than two people banding together to undermine authority – it is considered gang violence or gang related or birth of gang actions. I was not aware of this until this morning, but evidently this cause took place in my daughter’s school fairly recently.
From what I understand it was a bunch of sixth graders. The principal said there had been about 30 of them who had decided to stir up some mischief and were plotting their aggressive actions in the hall by the doors when they should have gone out for recess.
Of course when they were reminded of the rules to go out for recess and to disengage their loitering, they stood together and refused – which then led to the principal’s office (who by the way is the most awesome principal ever and is even tempered and rational and deserves respect) and the kids somehow blew everything out of proportion.
Each of them had gone home to give a very inaccurate account of the events and so Mrs. Randolph had parents slamming her as well as the kids. Mrs. Randolph was bashed on facebook and those involved discussed banding together by wearing the same color so that they would stand out. The color chosen was pink.
Somehow Mrs. Randolph got wind of what was going down and decided that ALL of her students would wear pink. (It was referred to as Mrs. Randolph Day) There were rumors that she was pregnant. Others said she must have cancer. But no, it was for unity. It was to even things out. It was taking a stand.
And for the most part none of the kids were wiser. They just did it because she asked them to. Certainly put a damper on the expectations of those sixth graders however. How wise to have put out the fire before it spread and turned into something ugly. At least I hope the fire has been completely smoldered.
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