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teenagers DJ and Carlotta Maurer walked out of their classrooms in
October to protest the compulsory viewing of Channel One, a television
program with commercials which is shown in schools across America,
school officials realized they had a couple of dangerous radicals on
their hands. Principal Patrick Calvin invoked the truancy provision of
the school's code of student conduct, and 13-year-old DJ and
14-year-old Carlotta were whisked away to the Wood County Juvenile
Detention Center, where they had all day to consider their crime.
Since then, Commercial Alert and Obligation, Inc., two national
anti-media groups, have taken up the Maurers' cause. The groups wrote
to Ohio Governor Bob Taft, urging him to remove Channel One from all
public schools.
"When the government sends children to a juvenile detention center
because they don't want to watch advertising, that is both Orwellian
and more than a little sick," reads the letter. "The public schools
ought to be a sanctuary from the noxious aspects of commercial
culture."
The governor has not responded to the letter. But the school is in
negotiation with the Maurers, who have religious objections to
television. It seems a day in the lockup didn't cool their heels
enough to keep them from kicking.
- Eliza Strickland
