Completely off-topic, but...
Schools these days are a bit... full of something. We technically can't wear hats or hoods on campus. Ever. Even if it's freezing, raining, both, or something else. They don't seem to enforce it when there's weather problems, so the schools seem to have acquired some degree of logic. But when I was at my middle school, someone I know, straight-A student, never got in trouble in his life, got reprimanded for having his hood up when it was cold and starting to rain. Since apparently only gang members put hoods on when it's cold and/or raining.
May I also remind you that I live in Western Washington, in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where we actually have a bunch of awfully strange weather phenomenon at various times of the year. Dear Miss PNW has outdone herself this year alone: overabundance of rain/flooding in early November; an odd appearance of cold, snow, and ice shortly afterwards (with record lows); and record-high windstorms which knocked out power lines and left lots of people literally in the dark for a few days.
Now all we need is another major earthquake and volcanic eruption to complete the cycle.
After our winter made national news, they apparently smartened up about hoods and weather conditions.
I have no idea what really happened with the Special Ed student, though. There must be something else going on.
ETA: Not to mention that schools around here have completely outdoor hallways. We have to battle the weather just to get from class to class.