123456 is still the most used password" and my 1998 AOL one was better, sad.

Waited way too long to look this up because I was scared of the answer and wow, 40k being top 50 is wild to me. I remember reading that during the speculator boom some books hit a million copies and now 100k is a monster hit. It makes total sense why books get axed so fast though, there just aren't enough of us actually buying. Guess it really is a small room that just sounds huge online.

Sounds like a pretty weak reason to get upset if you ask me. Chalk on a sidewalk washes off with one rain and nobody really cares, so the school probably just used it as an excuse since you had a whole group doing it as an event. One guy holding a sign by himself isn't the same thing as a bunch of people drawing all over school grounds, so of course they reacted different. Maybe the cop that day was just in a bad mood too, that happens. This feels more like a "rule got enforced on you and not him" thing than some big plot against your speech. Not everything is a conspiracy, sometimes it's just timing and who's watching.