"Carrie" released 1976

Stephen King's first novel Carrie was made into a movie and released November 16, 1976. (It had a limited release on November 3.)  Sissy Spacek played Carrie White, a shy, unpopular high school student who is constantly bullied by her classmates.  When she has her first period, she panics but then realizes she has developed telekinesis. 

In an act of cruelty, two of her classmates conspire to humiliate her at the prom, but things don't go quite as well as they planned.

Spacek received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress and Piper Laurie, who played her mother, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.  Carrie is one of very few horror films to be nominated for more than one Academy Award nomination.  It was named one of the best movies of the year and grossed over $33.8M.  It is ranked as No. 46 of the American Film Institute's list of 100 Greatest Cinema Thrills.  The climax at the prom is ranked as 8th on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

Oklahoma Editorial Board ignores reason for nation-wide high school protests

High school students in Edmond, Oklahoma during Wednesday's walkout

The boneheads on the Oklahoma Editorial Board must be a grumpy lot.  Reading their articles, I get the feeling they are happiest when they have something to complain about.  Saturday, they had a chance to show support for nation-wide walkouts by high school students demanding safer gun controls.  They could have helped send the message across the state.

What did they do?  Complain.  Criticize.  It's what they do best.  They know what the protests are about but they don't care.

The headline is "Student Protestors Muddle Their Message".  Then they cite one isolated case where a brawl ensued with one student getting arrested and another injured.  It occured at Glenpool High School near Tulsa.  Although the overwhelmingly majority of protests occured without incidents, the OEB has to use an obscure event to cast a pall over the entire movement.  Even I had to look up Glenpool to find out where it is.

I suppose they felt they needed additional corroboration to support their argument, so they quoted two teens "whining".  One felt that the football field was the worst place to demonstrate because few adults would see them. 

It worked for many other schools around the nation.  Did it hurt Norman High School's case or were you just mad they didn't do what YOU wanted to do.

The second whine came from an 8th grader who complained she was “not permitted to talk about many of the topics I wanted to talk about.”  What did they talk about?  Gun safety?  Or did they not consult YOU when asked about topics. 

The OEB admits these are minor, so why make them the majority of your op-ed?  Where is your support for students and their call for safer gun controls...oh, right.  It's Oklahoma. 

Even then, they can't resist a jibe from their ivory tower and tell students to study civil rights protests to see what real opposition looks like.  Yes, that is a good point.  Oklahoma was always on the opposite side of the civil rights movement.  So, is their jibe a warning instead?




http://newsok.com/oklahoma-scissortales-student-protesters-muddle-their-message/article/5587391

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/crimewatch/glenpool-high-school-student-arrested-another-injured-during-dispute-over/article_63ed0754-5f27-5267-bd0a-7b5fa5a5808c.html