[FourPeas]

“It’s not the content of their activity – that being the national anthem – it’s the location,” he said. “A couple steps and it would have been no problem whatsoever.”

Instead of doing as they were instructed, Gassman said the students resumed the song – an impromptu form of civil disobedience.

Why does it look like this guy's searching from some reason to justify telling the kids to stop?

[Ramius]

Why does it look like this guy's searching from some reason to justify telling the kids to stop?

Maybe they were just so terribly bad that he had to come up with some reason-- any reason-- to end the suffering? :-)