Getting active Greene, a sophomore at Monument Mountain High School in Great Barrington, is one of the originators of the coalition, which began in January. Greene brought his outrage from the meeting to his social studies class' weekly current events discussion, and the surprised response from the class forged an alliance with other concerned teens. Since its inception, SCAM has emanated from its headquarters at Monument Mountain to smaller chapters. In this manner, SCAM has earned satellite members all over the state, and taken under its name a Boston counterpart group that formed independently. We sort of plant seeds in different schools and hope they blossom.
Expansion comes in jumps.
Publicity has been kind to Greene and Setzer, who have appeared in the Boston Globe, US News and World Report, and in the future on WB56 in Boston. Greene travels all over the state to speak for the coalition including a recent visit to Frontier Regional High School. Some of them think that the kids that fail deserved to fail. At home in the Berkshires, SCAM has received mixed results from the public. Greene states that the ideas that SCAM endorses have caught on with many students and teachers, who are impressed with their initiative.