High school students expelled for kissing

Last night, before I heard this story, I was thinking of how contradictory the compulsory schooling laws are: Kids are required to go to school, but the "zero tolerance" Nazism has been pushed so hard that almost everyone does something that would get them expelled, which means they're not allowed to go to school. It's a conflict of laws that approaches entrapment.

I'm wondering what happens to all the students who get expelled these days. Obviously most of them don't go on to private schools, because private school enrollment is declining. I know expelled students can't just stay home and watch 'The Price Is Right' and play Dig Dug for the rest of the school year, because then they're entrapped into being labeled a truant. I know a majority don't start homeschooling either, because there's a lot of red tape in that.

Now, in Richland County, South Carolina, 2 high school students have been expelled for the rest of the school year for (horrors!) kissing on the school bus.

Um, these are teenagers. These are not 4-year-olds. What does the school expect? It used to be that most American public high schools would have just ignored it. At the one I graduated from, I can almost guarantee nobody would have batted an eye.

At least one of the expelled students started homeschooling after being kicked out of school.

But the school district won't budge and arrogantly defends its expulsions and its authoritarian prudery. So the students' families are appealing the penalties to court.

Hopefully the court will smack the school down hard!

(Source: http://www.beaufortgazette.com/state/story/175919.html)