School Discipline Overreach

"in school suspension" is largely a US only thing

Wait till the kids figure out how to do it. Principal at my school tried to have me expelled, by lying saying I was inciting violence. Soon it will be easy for kids to turn the tables on these tyrannical administrators in their insular fiefdoms.

Because people can control what their kids do at school...

Do they investigate public schools that engage in similar behavior???

This sounds similar to a small private school in the USA. Public schools here do not allow or enable discipline or the backing of the school.

What I have heard from similar cases previously is that in a school you basically have no rights. Previous cases the school has been determined to be within their legal rights when doing things like this(including involving the police). I don't know much more than that though.

Jesus! those folks need to leave their kids alone! they are at school!

"Something's shifted with how schools enforce (or don't enforce) these policies"This is it. The other parts are tangential to the true cause.

We pretty much banned teachers from removing kids from school. We decided that every kid has the right to be in school, mostly in the normal classrooms.You can see the result.Basically, every tool for controlling bad behavior gets labeled "abuse" and banned. We don't seem to notice that the resulting disaster of an environment is abusive to the good kids.

There is something very wrong with the school (system) if you actually got expelled for that. If that is the whole story, they should have explained why it was wrong and tried to encourage you to learn more, responsibly, by actually asking you to help them with securing their system. That is roughly what my headmaster in Russia did in similar circumstances. The thought of expelling a kid over something silly like this wouldn't even cross anyone's mind.