[randog]

About 130 Ennis ISD students—from sixth graders to seniors—joined in Thursday, despite a school district warning that any student participating would be suspended until Monday, including the prom.

So you called his bluff and found out he was holding aces. Welcome to the real world, kiddies.

[dufekin]

Wait a minute. If this incident had happened when/where I went to public school, the only sanctions available would require collective punishment--canceling the prom outright--rather than punishing certain individual students for their actual actions. Because this rule-breaking lacks an obvious victim, we could suspend the other principle of school discipline, "punish the victim, not the bully."

Students missing from class for non-disciplinary reasons could receive academic punishment (zeroes on any tests or other work missed) at the discretion of the teacher.