re: Interesting Lawsuit in Madison, Mississippi

Everyone involved is stupid, but that's not a surprise.


With regards to the expelled student, I'd say that the act is stupid but not enough to warrant expulsion.

Suspend the kid for a while, put some other administrative punishments on him, but leave him at the main HS unless he does something else while on probation.


A prank in the same ballpark, but not exactly like this, was enough to get a student suspended for a week or two at my school but not expelled. They just happened to withdraw and go somewhere else rather than return.




With regards to the suit, I think both challenges fail if they're going to poise this on the 8th Amendment and NCLB.

They're better off trying to parse technicalities on the punishment put on the kid to show that the principal overstepped their bounds by punishing the kid for Instagram stupidity in the same manner as if he'd brought a gun to school.