I agree with jimh @ #18 -- the student who called the 7-day suspension "a just punishment" was probably too afraid of further punishment to say anything else.

Speaking as someone who was terribly intimidated by authority figures when I was in high school, I understand where he's coming from. But I also dearly wish I could go back and stand up for myself.

Spoon @ #17: I disagree with the implication that not punishing a silly prank as sternly as possible is going to snowball into rampant disorder and no one learning math properly. Mostly I just think of that line from The Breakfast Club, how did it go... "Hey, how come Andrew gets to get up? If he gets up, we'll all get up, it'll be anarchy!" (Thanks, Wikiquote.)