Seventeen Students Expelled for Watching A Fight

Yes, you heard right!

While browsing through Zero Intelligence (remember that website I told you all about?), I discovered an April 1 post saying that 17 students from Adams City High School in Colorado faced expulsion for watching a fight that occurred off campus. Zero Intelligence said that, thanks to a state law stating "behavior on or off school property which is detrimental to the welfare or safety or morals of other pupils or of school personnel," EVERY SINGLE STUDENT near the scene, including those who were only observing the fight, recieved the same punishment-expulsion for an entire year-as the people who were fighting.

Cindi Seidel, assistant superintendent of Adams County School District 14, was the one who sent the letters informing the parents of the 17 kids about the expulsion. Later on, she claimed that charging the innocent bystanders was an "error." [Note: Make sure you read the funny comment made by the writer of the post, Jim Peacock, in response to Seidel's mistake.]


Take a look at this picture of three of the very ticked-off students who were punished-Santos Garcia, Luis Hernandez and Elio Flores: (The people in the background are some of the students parents.)



This picture is from the Denver Post website, where the story was originally from.