By Andrea Lannom
Legal Affairs Writer
Charleston Daily Mail
A group of Calhoun County students no longer faces expulsion for entering schools after hours to play basketball, drink juice and eat snacks.
A total of eight students, in grades 10 through 12, were involved in the case. School board members decided to expel them, and Calhoun Circuit Judge David Nibert ruled last week that expulsion was too severe a punishment for the remaining two, who were seniors.
Six male students allegedly went into Calhoun County Middle-High School's gym for less than an hour in March to play basketball, according to court documents. Some of the boys walked through the halls. Two of them took juice, fruit and lunch cakes from the school's kitchen. One of the boys turned away a security camera.
Three boys, including one of the juveniles who also went to the high school's gym, later went to Arnoldsburg Elementary School, without permission, to play basketball. They were able to get inside because one of the boys overheard the passcode to the building, according to court documents.
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