When this Guy talks about overweight, has he looked in the mirror?

While I respect Michael Moore's research and use of facts, I find his delivery and use of language sounding very desperate. He has so many good facts and figures that he does not need to be so condescending to the reader. Shock and Awe is how you wage a war, not convince your audience. I agree with him on the terrible state that public school teachers are paid and the huge problems with funding that schools face.
In his account of his time at school, he makes it sound like he was a little Che Guevara or Pancho Villa, fighting the good fight for education and resisting his parents decision to hold him back and trying to fight the nuns on a school newspaper. And while getting elected in high school is a good example of ways you can affect the community, I didn't understand why we went after his principal. I read and reread that section and I couldn't find where he mentioned what the principal did, other than try to moderate the balance between the spirit and letter of the law.
If all school principals that acted the way he described his, then all of them would be fired. When Moore says at the end to get your way by threatening a lawsuit, that's exactly why principals don't let students do some of the things Moore says that students should do. Principals are always walking the line of being attacked by either side. They hate lawsuits, because if they allow Moore and his students whatever they want in the name of free speech and voicing your opinion, they will get sued by those who want more conservative ways. If he does not allow them, then the ACLU will swoop down and attack him. Being a principal is like being a soccer referee. Either way, you lose.
While I thought Moore did bring up some good points, I also thought that the way he addressed his audience was not only informal but quickly made you either like him or dislike him. Not agree or disagree with him, I mostly agree with him, but I don't like him. Some of the things he said quickly left me feeling singled out. (I'm not crying or anything, I don't have soft skin and maybe I'm not part of his target audience). I was one of the kids in high school who ran for student government. I did it because it was fun and I got to help out at my school with different events. Everyone knows student government doesn't manage the school, that's why it's called student government. It's not the School Governing Body or the School Board. Its Student Government.
In the end of his essay, Moore made high school sound more like a Disney movie (Heavyweights or Recess) or Matilda. You know the ones, where everything is bad because of the evil principal and the kids/teens unite and drive them out and everything is happy, clean and everyone loves learning and their new younger principal. It's public school for crying out loud, not the Nazi Occupation. It's one thing to stand up for what you think are important topics and issues, it's another to rock the boat just to make waves.