Stupid school administration - a two-fer

First up from Shelton, Connecticut ctpost:

Shelton High senior has a date, but can't go to the prom
It began as a simple gesture. Shelton High School senior James Tate just wanted to make his good friend, Sonali Rodrigues, feel special.

So instead of the usual way of asking her to the senior prom, Tate and two friends went to the high school campus in the middle of the night and posted 12-inch tall, cardboard letters on the outside of the building -- at the main entrance.

The message that many saw when they arrived to school Friday, read: "Sonali Rodrigues, Will you go to the prom with me? Tate."

She said yes.

More:

Tuesday, after meeting with his headmaster, Tate and his two friends were each given one day, in-house suspensions and banned from the prom. Tate was told the administration felt what they did was a safety risk.

More:

Tate said that, according to school regulations, if you get suspended after April 1, you can't go to the prom.

"I tried to appeal -- tried to just get a detention instead," he said. "I even offered to do community service -- like cleaning up the litter outside the school."

But, he said, nothing worked.

"Now I have a date for the prom, but can't go," he said.

The article mentioned that he didn't trespass -- the wall that he used was accessible from the street and there was no damage to the building -- cardboard letters and double-stick tape. Just another nanny-statist wielding his elite powers. And of course:

Shelton High School headmaster Beth Smith did not return calls for comment Tuesday. Superintendent Freeman Burr declined comment, referring all questions to Smith.

Fscking morons -- both of them. Next up is this little gem from Maryland station WBAL:

2 Students Punished After Bag Search
A lacrosse player at Easton High School in Maryland is crying foul after he was arrested for having a pen knife in his bag, a tool he said is for repairing his lacrosse stick.

Graham Dennis was charged as a juvenile with possession of a deadly weapon and was suspended for 10 days after officials found the knife during a search of bags on a school bus headed for a game.

Dennis' teammate, Casey Edsall, who had a lighter in his bag that he also said is used to repair equipment, was suspended for a day.

And of course, that familiar refrain:

School officials would not comment on the details of the case.

Why don't these in-duh-viduals ever own up to their schmuckitude. They hide behind arbitrary 'rules' and do nothing to contribute to these kids education, only to pound them into the molds that the elites want them to be. Serfs who do not question the soft tyranny of their elites. Isn't progressivism just grand...