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The district isn't backing down, however.
It points out that students and parents were required to sign a code of conduct and acceptable use policy, which contained warnings of legal action.
The 13 students charged violated that policy, said Kutztown Police Chief Theodore Cole, insisting the school district had exhausted all options short of expulsion before seeking the charges. Cole said, however, that there is no evidence the students attacked or disabled the school's computer network, altered grades or did anything else that could be deemed malicious.
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The students and parents signed an agreement. A handful of students chose to repeatly break the agreement, and subsequent punishments did not deter them. They earned the legal complaint against them.
We only have this article stating they were charged with felonies. In my state, a felonly charge requires a monitary loss of $X or physical harm to another. I think we are trying to make sense of some inaccurate reporting.
The parents who thought these kids should be applauded for their cleverness should be required to "enjoy" the same punishment the kids get.