WAXAHACHIE -- Remember when parents picketed in front of the junior high on those blistery cold days in 2003? Linda Gallegos organized a protest attended by just a few people -- four tops maybe -- two straight days I believe -- in front of the junior high, handing out fliers and copies of The Ellis County Press articles when I covered the "undercover drug sweep" incident. What happened was a little snitch inside WJH (probably a teacher or an assistant) pinpointed several students as having drugs. One of those suspected seventh graders loaned his jacket to Linda's daughter to wear. Then she became implicated by association. After being hauled into the principal's office, assistant Larry Sutton and Kay Timmerman both threatened her with suspension if she did not (a) remove the jacket and (b) lift up her blouse so that they could search for the non-existent drugs. In fact, of the 10 or 12 students originally implicated, when searched, they, too, had no drugs on them.
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Photos: Joey G. Dauben/Circa 2003
What does re-posting these protest photos have to do with anything? Well, it shows just how one or two persons can truly affect change in our local governments. Those principals were reassigned or resigned to take positions elsewhere. The Waxahachie Daily Lieght did not cover one sentence of any of this back then. Also, there could be some school district wanting to check out the background on several administrators, so at least we can provide the "electronic paper trail" for researchers to accidentally stumble upon...
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These are more recent photos (a year ago) of Highway 77 protests in Waxahachie. The point being, there are only a few people at these protests, but the direct effects of them are much more powerful than the scoffers, critics and malcontents lash on them for.
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