Student Suspended For Inciting a "social media riot"

I have never seen a social media riot but I imagine it would be an awful sight. Patrick Brown of Cicero-North Syracuse High School in upstate New York was suspended for "inciting a social media riot" after he suggested in a tweet that the principal's job should be cut. The trouble began when the voters rejected the district's $144,716,279 budget proposal. While practically everyone in the school was talking where to cut the budget Brown tweeted using the hashtag #shitCNSshouldcut. Many students joined Brown and came up with an extensive list of cuts with maybe too much schadenfreude, at least for school administrators. The list included:
Cinema, I’m sorry, but really, you pay a teacher to have kids watch movies
Anime club
Cheerleading
Excessive budgets
Outdated code of conduct
3-D printers
Teachers who use their cell phones in class
The superintendent
Administrators that managed to get us into this mess, financially and socially
How about a CNS employee health care contribution increase?
Primarily, the board of education, and honestly most of the teachers, too. Extreme Makeover: School Edition

Employee health care contributions!? Who the hell raised this sorry bunch of brats?
Brown did make one mistake that left him open to suspension. He used his cell phone in class.

"I was called down to the office and told I was being suspended for harassment of teachers, which no harassment was ever committed," Brown said. "I proved them wrong and instead they suspended me for cell phone use in class and disrupting the education process because the trend I started created a social media riot."

His fellow students responded with #free pat brown. That hashtag was used by students from several school districts and used to discuss freedom of speech. This is weird. The students stay on a even keel while the adults go off the deep end.