There's a classroom full of protestors, and Mr. Chadwick is addressing them: "While Mr. Price and I are big fans of free speech and free assembly -- theoretically speaking -- here's how we like to deal with rebellion in school: we shut it down cold." Grace, who's at the front of the room with Joan, mutters, "Typical." Chadwick says, "Ms. Polk, I appreciate your effort to launch your lifelong career as a free radical, but I have a school to run...board of directors to answer to -- not to mention all your parents. I promised their children an education, and I'm going to make sure they get one." Grace: "Civil disobedience, that's not an education?" Price snipes, "We have big thick textbooks that talk all about that, if you'd bother to crack one." Yeah. Read about your rights, and be satisfied. Don't expect to ever actually be able to use them. Joan tells the principal she was wrongly accused and didn't cheat. Price reminds her she has the option of proving that by retaking the test. Joan: "I shouldn't have to prove anything!" Really. I get the teacher's suspicion, but I'd say he needs a lot more proof than this, and that they're not exactly going about this the right way. And I'm not one hundred percent sure what the right way would be, just that this isn't it.













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