I have inside information.
My son is a Senior at South Windsor High School. He knows 2 of the 4 kids who were kicked out, one of them he knows well.
He said the vast majority of students were angry at school officials for kicking the students out. He said that there was very little problems until school officials became involved. He said that most of the ruckus came from supportive students when the t-shirt wearing students were being escorted out of school.
The sprinting coach on the track team is a priest. The unnamed student is on the sprinting team, as is my son. The sprinting coach expressed praise for the kid.