Nah. Not "decorum" -- order it is, and a harsh forced order too. Too much forced order certainly is something that cramps and breaks the high human spirit that real character growth needs. Decorum this is not -- it's too orderly for most Americans to tolerate in most circumstances.
Yet it is a totally proper decision -- the proper and well-used authority of the school board, of the superintendent, of the principal or of the lunch-room staff to make and enforce and in doing so not being subject to overrule. Unles there are very strange facts not reported any judge who tarries with this case -- this frivilous suit and attempts to overrule legitimate authority acting in its porper role -- that judge himeself or herself is a rogue and overrreaching in misfeasance.
The father has a legimate complaint but has sought the wrong venue -- his recourse is through the school, or the school board -- or through the public election process. There are his proper lines of attack -- or even to place his child in a school whose operations better temper to his own.
Not decorum at all! Too much like a jail house mess for free men -- and their children too!
It is legitimate and sometimes necessary in wild districts to use such stern measures. Adults in full sanity and good experience know when to apply such measures in measured ways.
Yet by that very word of the Superindent "decorum" -- it's hideous misuse in context -- a fair guess is he's a master who knows not fish from fowl.
The problem is that there ARE no responsible adults in charge.
Between teachers' unions, Zero-Tolerance, and ivory-tower curricula bureaucrats, they make damn sure no one can ever be held responsible for anything.
Except maybe the parents, and sometimes the kids.
Kids - disrespect wrongful authority!
Suppose my Kosher child is assigned to sit next to students who bring bologna sandwiches from home every day. Would you find that acceptable or should my child be entitled to some sort of religious accomodation? What about a child with allergies?
I just have difficulty whenever government, or a governmental agent, exercises power in an arbitrary and capricious manner. Accepting such behavior demonstrates a willingness to submit to authority without question which is unacceptable to anyone who cherishes their liberty.