text: help..!!  what can i do? i go to a vocational school , the class mate and i noticed a lot of the machine"s were broken and new one's were not hooked up i went to the asistant principle and asked him to look into it , well they looked into it  asked the welding instructor why wasn't this stuff hooked up? all the sudden i get letters in mail stating that all the sudden i "i may not be smart enough ,i may not have the motor control to do welding < i may not be able to read well enough (trust me i read post collage ) i tried the a.c.l.u....but my friend told me it may not be a big enough of a freedom of speech issue   after 1 1/2 hears they kicked me out and i can't get my welding certificate....what would happen if i picketed the school and wrote on the picket sign the name's of the adnistration who kicked me out ...this was so wrong and no one seems to care ...i'm very principled and patriotic and i will be the only one out there picketing but i'll do it this is in michigan by the way. how can i exercise my first amendmant right which i always hold so dear ? first of all, calm down and stop shouting. your anger is also affecting your ability to form proper sentences and use spell check. to be able to communicate effectively with "the powers that be", make sure all your language skills are up to snuff.  that being said - you started out by saying that "i go to" a vocational school, and somewhere in there, it changed to "they kicked me out". which is it? have you been expelled?  if so, you have several options, and the aclu isn't one of the more useful ones, as it doesn't appear that your expulsion is the by-product of any of your civil rights being violated.  start by asking the administration of the school to provide you with a detailed record of your history there, including grades on all tests/exams, as well as attendance. will this record show that you were completing the coursework successfully? will it show that you were there when you were supposed to be, and that all assignments were submitted on time, and passing grades were given to them?  the point is, the school has to be able to show that you were expelled because of not meeting the criteria for passing. you cannot be expelled simply because you (and another student, if i am to understand this correctly), brought a potentially unsafe condition to the attention of the appropriate party there.  if, after reviewing your records, you determine that you did, indeed, meet the criteria for passing, then your next step would be to call and request a meeting with the school's administrator. ask that person to put in writing their reason(s) for expelling you. have your records in your hand, and ask the administrator to review them, to give them an opportunity to rescind their decision to expel you. if, after doing this, the administrator still doesn't agree that the expulsion was unwarrented, then your next step would be to contact the governing agency for the school, likely the michigan department of education (at the state level). you can find their phone number in the pink government pages of your phone book. call them, explain your situation, and ask for a hearing (or whatever process they have in place to appeal the school's decision), and follow through on it.  be calm, be articulate, be prepared, and be ready to defend your record. if you do all this, it is pretty likely that you will be re-admitted, and given the opportunity to catch up on whatever was missed since the expulsion, in order to pass.  picketing the school - while giving you the opportunity to vent your outrage - will not further your cause. rethink that "strategy".