School Officials Stop Students' Plans For Snow Day

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- School officials have put a chill on two students' plans to wage a "snow day" at their high school. Two Ramona High School students were suspended for bringing snow to school after officials declared snowballs dangerous.

"Anything that disturbs that or disrupts that is inappropriate on a school campus," said Principal Mike Neece. "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."

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I can never say I didn't learn something from browsing the ontheborderline.net blog site. The story above is a current post on the site. Now as a graduate from good old HHS who sat on the lecture receiving side of Mr. Heiting's desk and received a number of three-day "vacations," I was always boggled by the thought that this was some kind of punishment. One vacation was snowball-related and it was three days off not two. They are obviously getting to lenient these days.

Still the OTBL's Perry Mason, BobZiller, urges litigation on this case:

BobZiller Says:
February 28th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
This one is worth going to court on. I can’t believe the school policy envisioned a truck load of snow as a dangerous object. My guess is that the kids grabbed the snow and started throwing snowballs at each other...

The next time the OTBL'ers start complaining about the cost of "giverment" education, can someone with commenting rights remind them that lawyer fees are paid by the taxpayers.