Following up on PennyGate, it's worth noting that this sort of bizarro school discipline has happened before: in November of last year, Megan Coulter was given two days of detention for the henious crime of hugging. While Megan actually served her time, our commenter Tracey points out that the Penny Gang got a reprieve. The incident has also been downgraded from a "protest" to a "prank" according to the school Superintendent Jorden Schiff. Interesting side note: in 1995, Schiff was one of the youngest people ever to become a high school principal in New Jersey, at age 28.

Here's the best quote of the whole thing: Schiff says that the kids will serve the detentions "if parents ask that their children serve them." Next time I take a flight, I'm going to ask to fly the plane. Hey, why not?

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