“The policies I broke stated that I used my phone in the hallway without permission, used my phone for social media, and posting pictures of minors without consent.”
Nonsense.
They should not have suspended the kid.
The kids are supposed to be on the same page as the administrators? That is the problem with schools today. They don’t teach the kids to think. The administrators want to indoctrinate them.
Buy the kids a camera, have him take a picture of the hallway with a copy of a current paper, and have a parent of a former student post it on social media.