Forced Apology Sparks Debate

Tristan Kading, a 15-year-old vegetarian and seasoned protester, saw the necessity to speak his conscience when McDonald’s showed up at his school recently looking for summer employees for its restaurants. Administrators at Stonington High School instead saw a disrespectful and disruptive student unwilling to co-operate in a special assembly on job interview skills that the McDonald’s Corporation had agreed to host — they forced him to read an apology to the entire school