I would definitely fight that one 2Sav. Tell them they need to test every piece of gum that has been carelessly spit out on campus and suspend every one of those kids. That's B.S. Obviously she needs to have some form of punishment, I just don't think that warrants 5 days suspension especially considering all the stuff school administrators let slide on a daily basis.
I've been handcuffed to the chair that was bolted to the ground in the principals office time and again. Every time I got away with it one way or another. Even got away with pissing on one of the vice principal. On my senior prom night our buses were 2 hours late, during the waiting period they offered us drinks and snacks but would not allow us into the restrooms for fear of us gathering "drug paraphernalia" stashed in the bathrooms. Now the charter buses never show up, so the rattiest looking school buses of the 70's show up to take us. Our driver is high as F*CK on weed, looks like Jesus Christ, and has a temper. We are finally on our way to the Sony back lot (this is the first/last school dance I ever went to) and the drivers get lost. We're sitting outside a del taco in the middle of Compton or some shit and at this point we have all got to piss.
I ask the vice principal (who was allowed the use of a bathroom before we left school) if we can go to the restroom in the Del Taco. He declares that we can't for fear that we will, once again, gather drug paraphernalia. I tried to get off the bus and piss in the bushes right next to the bus. The bastard grabs me by the shoulders and tries to drag me back onto the bus, meanwhile all passengers on the three buses in our caravan are leaning out the windows watching. I got away from the fock and turned to piss on him since he so nicely decided it was his job to grab me while I was urinating. Next Monday at school of course the school deputy and the vice principal show up in my first classroom with a pair of handcuffs (at this point I have a Long history at this school, actually 3 times i was court mandated to anger management coaching). Without parental intervention I got out of that one because the ass hole touched me. They're not allowed to lay their hands on a student unless the student is committing and act of violence. They thought they were going to intimidate me into accepting expulsion 2 weeks before graduation. I graduated with a 4.0 and a behavioral record 6 pages long printed front and back. I'm not exactly proud of it but I only truly got in trouble once, that was the time I was expelled for throwing the pencil into the teachers neck.