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Parents and teachers at the Peabody School in particular have spoken out against the plan at committee meetings and some intend to attend today’s protest...
...many of the same parents are back and are planning to picket in front of the Thorndike Street offices of the city’s public schools this morning to protest the latest in a series of consolidation plans aimed at coping with declining enrollments and a budget deficit of $3.8 million...
However, despite the image that today’s protest might at first convey, the new plan has gained more acceptance among both parents and school committee members than any previous proposal and is expected to pass in a school committee vote next week...
...Please come to a protest of the school consolidation plan,” Nolan’s answering machine message says. “Make your opposition to the plan known...
...answer, it seems, involves former U.S. President George H.W. Bush’s February speech at Tufts. A group including Monnin protested his speech, and the protestors’ behavior—which allegedly included shouting over Bush and making lewd gestures—was deemed “not consistent with the traditional Tufts courtesy” by Alumni Association officials. On the basis of the protest and the accusation that she made a rude gesture towards former President Bush, Monnin’s not-yet-awarded award was pre-emptively revoked...