Should students be charged with a felony for bringing porn to school?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This story's kind of old, but I found it while looking up the address to my former employer (the newspaper):

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2006/04/25/news/local/113696.txt

Pretty insane. At my old middle school (not this one, and it's since been closed and replaced), I remember a similar scenario (two students looking up porn on the internet) and they only received detention and a ban from the school computers for the rest of the year (which was almost over anyway). So either things have gotten far more ridiculous since when I went there or I'm really glad I didn't go to this one.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What a stupid story. My old HS had a double standard. Guy I know brought a porno video to class and was watching it on the computer[ I still remember the title “booty call 5"} and got in trouble, naturally. Girl brings one of those anime yaoi porno books to school and was showing it to all her friends, and she got off  scot free. Really ticked me off, where was the justice? So is cartoon porn okay while real person porn is not?

But to answer your question no, they should definitely not be charged with a felony. I don’t think they should even be suspended, but if your looking up porn on the computer I guess you could get a virus and wreck it, so I see why that rule is needed.

Using school materials to look it up is one thing, but simply bringing it, geez!

If this law is also read correctly giving a Playboy to a minor is also a felony, and thus also a bigger crime than giving them alcohol or tobacco. How ridiculous.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

After doing some more research, I discovered this site. YUCK!

http://www.its-not-for-sale.com/index.html

I love how they give you all the retailers that sell porn. Sounds like free advertising to me. It's also incomplete (I can think of at least two others in Bismarck) and they also don't mention those who sell or rent videos. Since they're also Minot-based they haven't been that successful there since yet another strip club has opened since their inception. There was some controversy over the name (people didn't want a place called "Sin" in downtown), so they agreed to change it. Now it's basically unnamed and is simply labeled "Gentlemen's Club".

Anyway I'm glad I didn't hear of these freaks when I lived there, although I might've if I lived in Minot.