>It could be a South thing. It also might have to do with my school is half a >10,000 population suburban like town and half are kids that crawl in from the >feilds 10 miles away from town in there rusty pick-up trucks.

Could be.....

Thomaston is the county seat town of Upson County with about 35,000 total...counting a few goats along the way. Basicaly a rural county. So the small town thing is a reality here too.

I really think that all of extra disipline in the schools is a knee jerk reaction to Colmubine and the other school shootings. People are scared and fear can be a bad thing.