Sorry Mr. LoPresti, but you are wrong. It is a prison.
While I happen to agree with LoPresti on principle, I'm against getting the ACLU involved.
What he should do is get a solid school board slate going and change the rules that way. That would be more constructive, and more painful to the ninnies.
Have you been to a school cafeteria lately?
We don't know the backround on why this rule was put in place but we do know that this child was not following the rules three times and was punished.
As I said, if the child followed the rules and the parent fought at that point, I would have no problem. Instead another lawsuit because a child did not follow the rules and daddy doesn't like it. Our taxes go up in lawyers fees and the NEA screams they need more money.
Children act only the way we expect them to. If we expect them to follow the rules (even the stupid ones) and work to change them, they will act that way.