A little boy had injured his arm by sticking it up the chute of the school's soft drink machine in search of a reluctant bottle. The school authorities ordered the machine removed. That seemed to the students about as sensible as taking away a diving board because somebody had dived into the pool when it was empty. And to deprive kids of Cokes in Orange County, Tex. was like taking milk away from babies.
At the next school-board meeting, students from Bancroft school stormed into the hall and demanded their machine back. They also had a few other grievances: they couldn't go...
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