The Corrections Club by Joseph Oldham

Author:Joseph Oldham [Oldham, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2021-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

It was only a matter of time before the school administrators connected the dots: some of the students who were present at the now infamous “Taco Tuesday Melee” were members of a gym that was involved in a fight card. The town had limited athletic events, and the posters for the Fight Night event had been visible around town, stapled to WiFi hotspot towers and plastered on the windows of businesses. The town was too small, and the event was too big.

By the end of the week the administrative team at Abraham X High had planned a formal protest. Counselor Roake spearheaded a committee, creating flyers and purchasing a local billboard on the interstate outside of town. Roake publicly decried the sporting event as a “barbaric cismale bloodletting ceremony,” and a “hate rally advocating for continued patriarchal dominance.” The Counselor and the Librarian were seen distributing leaflets by the bus zone after school bearing a cartoon of Hitler wearing boxing gloves, standing triumphant over a fallen rainbow-colored unicorn.

Propaganda began to appear on the school’s walls the following day.

‘Cancel Combat Sports,’ in bright pink lettering on a grey field.

‘Fighting is Inequitable,’ read another poster, bold typeface with black and white bars.

‘End Cultural Appropriation in the Martial Arts,’ claimed another.

It started with the posters; bumper stickers and t-shirts followed. Counselor Roake, the angry teaching staff, and the Principal threw themselves into the project with frightening zeal. AXH had monthly protest marches in accordance with state guidelines, and they had found May’s target. Homeroom advisory classes extended through the mornings in order to create art supporting the resistance. Second period Math was temporarily shut down to practice marching formations in the parking lot.

The school prepared a list of demands and sent it to the fight promoter. Drafted by Counselor Roake, the document included proposed changes to the unified rule set for MMA and Kickboxing, to be more in line with Social Justice, Critical Race Theory, and Cultural Correction. The list was soon posted online, in the hallways, and around town, along with a host of anti-fight propaganda. By the end of the week, songs and hymns had arisen from the choir room, chanting down the athletic contest.

The list of proposed rule changes was as follows:

1. Equitable steroid and hormone treatment for all fighters that have a losing record.

2 Competitors who identify as a certain weight class may compete at it.

3 Survivors of adverse childhood experiences automatically awarded +1 at the end of each round.

4 Judges will take subconscious racial bias into the highest consideration when scoring rounds.

5 Coach-Competence Penalty (-1 for the first round) for athletes privileged with winning-record coaches.

6 Trans-identifying athletes will face zero barriers in hand-selecting their competitors.

7 BIPOC competitors first billed on promotional posters.

8 LGBTQ+ halftime cabaret and karaoke contest.

9 72” participation trophies for all.

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