This kind of bullshit is one reason I home school. The need to turn horseplay into criminal activity is not new. It happened in my era too. It can turn good kids bad real quick. I guarantee that in the minds of these kids their behavior was innocent, and they're not the monsters the DA is making them out to be, but when you have six, I won't be surprised if one or two end up on meth by twenty, and maybe one shoots up the school. This is political, scorched Earth, public sacrifice tactic is how you make monsters.