Students Suspended for Snowball Fight


Feb 24, 4:38 PM (ET)


RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Two Ramona High School students were suspended for bringing dangerous objects to school - snowballs.

Seniors Michael Sepulveda and Daniel Zavala, the snowball co-conspirators, made a pre-dawn run to the San Bernardino Mountains to fill their pickup trucks with snow and bring it to school for what they hoped would turn into an annual "bring Big Bear to Riverside" ritual.

They were suspended after a school parking lot snowball fight before the start of classes Thursday.

Principal Mike Neece said one of his most important responsibilities is maintaining a safe, orderly learning environment.

"Anything that disturbs that or disrupts that is inappropriate on a school campus," Neece said. "Anything that could cause injury, or could cause a student to get upset and instigate a fight, or damage students' personal property is just inappropriate behavior."

Zavala and Sepulveda were stunned.

"The school overdid it. In the handbook it does not say, 'Do not bring snow to school,'" Zavala said Thursday afternoon.

"It's snow," Sepulveda said.

Savala's mother Martha Valdez called the boys' actions "harmless" but said she supported the decision by school officials.

"They're still there to mandate the rules, and they have to draw the line somewhere."

Yet another reason why zero tolerance policies are idiotic.

If the school has a zero-tolerance policy for fighting, the suspension was the right punishment. Even tho most snowball fights are 'friendly' they're still fights.

Don't send your children to government schools. You are askin for trouble if you do.


Slim

Originally posted by M&Mdelite
If the school has a zero-tolerance policy for fighting, the suspension was the right punishment.
No it wasn't.
Even tho most snowball fights are 'friendly' they're still fights.
No they're not. Sheesh. It's freaking SNOW. Whatever happened to common sense?

Ramona -- figures.

It's all fun and games until someone gets an eye put out :)

Snowballs don't kill, people that throw them do. sign up for the anti-snowball movement we need to make America a safe place :D

Yellow snow is not safe to eat brown snow is worse.

I say lets ban snow all together in the US, next time it snows I'm going to sue mother nature.

I gotta agree with my friend, Borg?



What kinda FLAKES would ban SNOW BALLS?!?



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