I have to disagree here.I certainly hope that there isn't any retaliation against students at Field or any other school for exercising their first amendment rights.
The point of civil disobedience is that you are knowingly disobeying the law, in a civil (non-violent) manner. Knowing that it is the law, and that you will suffer the consequences of violating it. Your willingness to do so, without attempting to escape or avoid arrest, is what proves the seriousness of your protest: "this is so important that I willingly risk arrest for it".
After all, Ghandi & ML King did not try to avoid arrest & imprisonment for their acts of civil disobedience, they just used their imprisonment to gain more publicity & more supporters.
I think that it really cheapens the effect of civil disobedience if we remove the consequences, saying they were disobeying "for a good cause". And the consequences here are pretty minor: stay after school and write an essay on why you oppose the war -- hardly the level of being thrown into a 1960's southern jail!
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
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