Rules are the expressions of opinion by those in  power. Hopefully, rules are collecively generated. Rules are NOT given by the divine and written in stone. Rules are at times in error and should be challenged. Challenging a rule is part of the process of generating rules.

I suspect what you may object to is not that those with power express opinions as rules but rather that those without power express opinions regarding rules (read – opinions of those in power). 

This is an educational setting – it occurs to me that this is a teaching moment that those in power missed. Which raises questions in my mind about their definition of and ability to ‘educate’.

You should – it seems to me – remove a kid from school if their presence at school causes harm. The issue wasnt that they were causing harm at school – it was that they werent at school. 1) get them back in school 2) use the moment as an opportunity to educate.

They didnt educate – they punished. 

P.S. TC’s servers are wobbly again. They are closing connection with no data sent. 

One of the problems we have in todays society is that respect for rules, for ‘order’ if you will is eroding. And the younger the individual is the more that issue is magnified.

We simply cannot allow students in middle school, or at any level, to simply walk out of school and think that there will be no consequence.

A four day suspension sounds fine to me.