Federal Appeals Court Upholds Criminal Charges Against 13 Year Old for Burping in Class

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Criminal Charges Against 13 Year Old for Burping in Class - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"The scene is Albuquerque's Cleveland Middle School, where a 13-year-old class clown is disrupting things by constantly burping during teaching time.
So the teacher bounces him to the vice principal's office, who has a sneaking suspicion that the kid is involved in selling pot on school grounds.
The boy is made to take his jeans and shoes off but no drugs are found.
The kid—a pain in the ass in all likelihood, let's be honest—is suspended for the rest of the school year.
As over-the-top as that seems, there's worse yet to come.
He's also criminally charged under an impossibly vague statute that reads in part:
"No person shall willfully interfere with the educational process of any public or private school by committing, threatening to commit or inciting others to commit any act which would disrupt, impair, interfere with or obstruct the lawful mission, processes, procedures or functions of a public or private school."
...When you encounter this sort of ridiculous overreaction on the part of school officials—which is then certified by even-more-august authorities—it is no wonder why Americans are losing confidence in major institutions of political, commercial, and civic life. 
These are not the actions of authorities who have belief in themselves and the things they run.
They are the behaviors of a society in decline, to be honest, that no longer feels as if it can exercise power at any level except via banishment and extreme action."