Application

We are protesting against the no-shorts policy because most boarding schools get to wear shorts when it's hot outside but we don't. The guys have to wear pants no matter the weather. The lake placid winter takes the majority of the school year so we don't understand why they can't allow us to wear shorts for a month at the beginning and end of the year.

To passively resist, we are supposed to wear shorts to class but not be disrespectful to any authority or student judging us for it. We are supposed to accept the consequences of our actions without complaints and power through no matter how bad they are.
We are not alone in the act but my "organization" definitely got smaller after Mr Broderick's attempt to scare us off. People are more scared to go through with it now because they are not sure they are ready to defy the power.
The positive consequences would be that we get to wear shorts at the beginning and end of every year. The negative consequences could be points or work crew and getting on Broddy's bad side.

Some see our act as a treason to the rest of the school because we might ruin the student council proposal. Others see it as futile.
Our motivations are altruistic; we are seeking something for ourselves as a community in the hopes of getting it.

There was no act of Civil disobedience but there was an attempt. After we decided to move the act to a day later we realized our mistake. The whole community was talking about the movement the next day and one of the people on our team went to tell "the authorities" about the plan. At school meeting, we were threatened and that resulted in a lot of the students backing out. We wanted change but not everyone in our group was willing to fight for the cause no matter what. Although some of us wanted to carry on, we knew that a handful of us wouldn't have made much of a difference.