One Trashy Protest

I haven't heard of anything quite like this happening locally, but let me know if I'm wrong:

To protest the state budget cuts to education, teachers staff and students in Alameda earlier this week made their feelings clear by standing inside garbage cans on a busy street corner, giving their two cents to passers-by.

As one kid told the San Francisco Chronicle: "If they trash the schools, kids would be trashed too," said Ben Holmes, 7, explaining with a first-grader's clarity why he was standing in a gray trash bin on the corner of Park and Central earlier this week.

And as writer Nanette Asimov deftly noted, "For drama, it's hard to beat a child in a garbage can."

Indeed. Let me know, via shelly.leachman@dailybreeze.com, if you hear of any similar protests planned at South Bay school districts.