On Thursday, April 21, lawyers for 16-year-old Christopher Spaide and his parents, Drs. Richard and Chang Spaide, filed suit against the Dalton School for "arbitrarily and capriciously" suspending the high-school sophomore after he wrote a series of controversial "minutes" for a February student-government meeting. The suit alleges that the minutes which the young Mr. Spaide wrote in his capacity as secretary of the student government were intended as nothing more than playful "attempts at wit and satire." And it accuses the school of "irreparably" harming Mr. Spaide, demanding that Dalton expunge any reference to the scandal from his record.

As described in court documents, the young Mr. Spaide is a lifelong Daltonian and A-student with "exceptional intellectual abilities." But according to sources at the school, Mr. Spaide s minutes consisted of plenty of homophobic, anti-Semitic and racist commentary and included fabricated accounts of student-teacher affairs.

Worse comes to worst, Spaide, you can always apply for a guest-editorship at Gawker. —MG
 Schools For Scandal [New York Observer]