Were the students instructed, pre-assembly, to keep their line of questions within civil protocol? If this wasn't made clear to the students, then, IME, there's no grounds to punish the student.Oh come on. A 14 year old is old enough to know that asking whether someone was raped is inappropriate. I remember being that age, and the only time questions as rude as that were ever asked was by people purposely trying to be offensive or make a scene.
Well, Angel -- I've seen the way some first year college students act -- I'm not sure even by that age some *know* what is an appropriate question or not. We can argue about "thrill factor" in asking such questions; and there's a point. But in some parts of the country, some seem to have had little training or discipline.
I think the "total honesty" movement (liberalism, 70s) has had a deleterious affect on many aspects of civil society.