When in the course of school, it becomes necessary for me and the
Student Body to dissolve the restrictive bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume the powers of the earth, the separate
and equal station to which the laws of the governed and the rights
endowed to them, a decent respect to the opinions of me and my class
I and the Student Body hold these truths to be self-evident, that
school is created for our purposes, that are endowed by are rights in the
constitution with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life,
liberty from school, and the pursuit to do as we wish. That to secure
these rights governments (School board) made are instituted by
students and not that of the School board; so that students can derive
their own School Board, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their Happiness and Freedom. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
School boards long established should not be changed for the light and
transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that
Students are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to
right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
That whatever a school board becomes destructive of these ends it is the
Right of the Students to alter it or abolish it.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these students; and such is
now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former System of
School. The history of the present School Board is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpation's all having in direct object the establishment of
an absolute School Board over us Students.
To prove this, this is a list of the usurpation's that the School
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