Two Central High School students are joining together with other peers in Bibb County to fight against Romain Dallemand's plan to overhaul the school system.
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Seniors Brett Felty and Tanner Pruitt say the plan is vague and would be impossible to enforce.
They plan to protest their plan by marching from Tattnall Square Park to the Bibb County Board of Education downtown Thursday morning.
They expect about 100 students to take part.
Tanner Pruitt, a senior at Central High says he's no stranger to school board issues. He's a member of the Superintendent's and the Georgia Department of Education's Student Advisory Councils. He says he's worked to raise support for public education, and says he doesn't agree with Romain Dallemand's plan.
"They just won't mesh well the people that have devised these plans were disconnected from the actual environment that they're supposed to function in." says Pruitt.
He thinks the plan may lead to quotas for minorities in honors classes and says taking those classes should be left up to the students, not forced on them.
He also doesn't agree with the new discipline plan, because he thinks students who act out in school should be punished.
That's why he says he's taking action.
Brett Felty says he's tried to contact Dallemand several times, even at board meetings. He says the board is deliberately ignoring them. "Its really frustrating to feel like no one is interested in listening to how this is affecting us because this is in fact our education." says Felty.
He says Dallemand is like a dictator and says it's creating a sense of terror in school. "If people didn't understand what was going on then they wouldn't be able to revolt from what is going on, that's sort of what's happening no one gets what's happening so no one knows that what's happening is bad." says Felty.
That's why he says he's protesting the plan.
"We're not going down there with picket signs or to scream until our lungs collapse we're going down there to show them that we are students and we care about this." says Felty.
They hope the board listens thursday when they'll present a formal petition and a counter proposal.
The teens will march from Tattnall Square Park to the Board of Education thursday morning.
After our five o'clock story aired, Brett Felty says he got a phone call from the superintendent's office asking him and Tanner Pruitt to meet with a deputy superintendent tonight to clarify their questions about the plan. Felty says he'll attend the meeting, but thursday's protest will go on.