Hi Jed, I'm sorry that your state (home of the toxic texan) has shamed themselves & you.
Knee JERK reactions & responses to situations that aren't to be bothered with make it very easy not to have to handle people on a human/humane level according to each case. Some people love to have their hands tied so they can go through life blind, dumb & in total unaware bliss of any body or thing around them.
IMHO the school district did not come to their senses, they bailed themselves out of a situation as best they could with trying to save as much face as possible (& the cost of national embrassement not to say the legal expendures & award payments if found to be the simpletons they apear to be) without the decency to admit how bad their aim was when they shot from the hip. It should have cost them their right to ever hold a place of authority unless it comes to judge & sentence themselves.
Barry