Don’t read this Kelly, you won’t agree with one word of it 🙂

I think the suspension of these brats is more then justified. Being charged with a crime, might be much, but the students won’t do any time, it is just a way to finally make them comply. They will get some detention, probation and at the most, maybe some community service. Which I think is probably the best thing that could happen to these little brats.

Rules are rules. Break the rules, get caught, pay the penalty. Don’t like the penalty? Simple, don’t break the rule. This is the way the civilized world is supposed to work, we have rules and laws for a reason.

These kids didn’t care that they were continually breaking rules. Detentions, suspensions, everything the school tried, failed. What else can the school do? Forget about the students being “creative” or whatever people want to call them, they continually broke the rules, rules that they all agreed to with a signature at the beginning of the year!

They made a decision not to comply with the rules, so when you do this, you should also be aware that their are consequences to your actions. Ignorance of any rules or laws, is not an excuse.

What is extremely troubling, to me, is that they were using monitoring software to spy on district administrators. ” Spying on adminstrators? That should be more then enough to kick kids out of school for a year. These kids went out of their way to break these rules, going as far as to use cracking programs off the internet so that they could access the administrative password. Harmless fun, Not! I would be more then a little upset if some 15 year old kid went out of his way to spy on my computer. And If I caught the kid, the last thing in the world they would have to worry about is a suspension.

When I was working, we were all given laptops. If we damaged, them, or circumvented the built in operating system (which was easy to do) and were caught. We were given demerits, anywhere up to 20 demerits per incident. 60 demerits and you were fired, no ifs and or buts. No union in the world can save you once you hit 60 demerits.

So maybe it is better to teach these brats something about responsibility before they graduate and have to go out into the real world.?

In my humble opinion, they got what they deserved. No, scratch that, they should have been paddled first, then suspended. Now if they get some community service, I will be a little happier 🙂