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Let me get this straight here ... we're talking about two pick up truck loads of snow right? It's not like they had a blanket of 6 to 10 inches that they could use to cause this all out pandemonium that obviously must have ensued when the first ice grenade was launched. This seems to be clearly a case of giving a badge of authority to a personality who is not equipped to handle it. In a sense we're watching that personality melt down more quickly than the two truck loads of snow. Yeah yeah...stop the snowball fight, maintain the peace, and send everyone off to class with a good laugh.
Everyone laughs except the one disturbed kid that was hit with an errant snow bomb. The issue of future retaliation is a good one to consider. Kids nowadays can take that to a whole new level. You piss off the wrong kid who's family has an affinity for weapons and the next thing you know you've got another trench-coat mafia forming with the next Eric Harris/Dylan Klebold plotting their revenge. It's different today. This punishment may not have fit the crimes of our past but ... and maybe this is a leap ... but today ... times have definitely changed.
I don't think I would have suspended these two. If there were kids caught in the frekas who have a history of confilct or were not part of the "in crowd" I'd put them on a watch list for signs of malevolence.
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