Norwich High School Tows Tractor, Social Media Influencer Offers Cash To Tractor Driving Protesters

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My quiet little city is not so quiet when it comes to driving tractors to school.

NORWICH – On Friday Norwich City School officials impounded a tractor after a student drove it to school. The school has released no details about the incident.

School Superintendent Scott Ryan said Sunday the Norwich Board of Education would need to approve a community request to allow tractors at the school.

According to the Norwich City Police the impound fee for the vehicle was waived, but the student had to pay a $325 towing fee.
The incident caused a social media backlash resulting in a social media influencer with 2 million followers, whistlindiesel on Instagram, to support the student by offering to pay $500 to anyone who drove their tractor to the school on Monday.

The whistlindiesel account posted, “I don’t know this kid but @braedonbaker07 drove his tractor to school and the police impounded it out of the school parking lot while he was inside. When I was younger the school literally had a day intended for kids driving their tractors to school. I’m not mad just disappointed. I don’t believe calling them is going to send the message I want. I’m paying $500 PayPal to EVERY SINGLE PERSON that drives their tractor to Norwich New York high school Monday.”

School officials reported that over the weekend the school and police were inundated with calls and complaints.

Ryan declined to comment on the incident Monday morning as dozens of students and area farmers drove their tractor to the school in protest.

Ryan in a video posted Sunday said, “To anyone wondering the answer is yes, my phone has been inundated with screenshots from social media – despite my love and desire to promote staff and student successes at NCSD.”

“Here is what I know, kids for a very long time have made very silly choices. It is the adults in their lives that help guide them to make decisions that do not risk the safety of self and others, I'm banking on that fact for the kids of this nation - and boy do we need role models more now than ever. So lets talk tractors.

“Oh, and by the way, I love tractors. If the community thinks that our students should drive tractors to school lets petition the school board, I can and will help with that process,” said Ryan in the video.

Norwich High School Tows Tractor
 

In the jurisdiction where I live, it is illegal to drive a unlicensed vehicle on a public roadway. Are these farm tractors registered and bear a state issued license plate ? If not, they should be cited by Police for illegal operation. JimB.
 
It's always interesting when a kid can make a bureaucrat lose his or her mind over some silly nonsense.;)

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The thing is that this boy drove his tractor to school with no thought in his mind he was going to get in trouble for doing so. A few of the schools, including this one, have had drive your tractor to school days in the past. He did not do it to cause any trouble. It is pretty common around here driving a tractor on the road. After all this is a farm area. There is an older man who drives an old tractor to Walmart all the time.
 
The Norwich P.D. needs to stop hassling people for petty nonsense and start paying attention to the criminal element that is rapidly taking over this town.
Across the street from our building, there's a group congregating in front of the library and behind it,there were cars in our lot egged a couple of weeks ago,someone spotted a guy walking through looking in car windows,there was a dumpster fire in the senior apartments a couple of blocks from here!
 
I wouldn't want everyone driving tractors to our local school, I can be patient behind them when they are going about their productive business, but just kids clogging the roads to school would be annoying. You'd think they could have requested the kid to take it home instead of having it towed. Of course there are tractors and then there are tractors, the ones I see driving around my house are the size of dinosaurs, can't envision them parking in the school parking lot.
 
For about sixteen years after retirement I traveled all over the US [by motorcycle] almost always on two lane roads. And countless times I encountered farm machinery of damn near every description on the roads, moving from one field to another. IMO the smart thing to do is to yield to them .......... they are feeding us.

I have no personal knowlege of tractors at school ....... But I'm of the belief that it isn't out of place in rual farming communities ?
 

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