So far hundreds of students have been punished for their involvement in the making of one of thousands of videos in this most recent and pervasive Internet trend.
• The Mound-Westonka community in Minnesota was angered and disappointed when students –including six hockey players– were suspended hours before a critical and ultimately season-ending game.
• At least 30 students were suspended from Milford High School in Highland, MI in what seems to be the only Harlem Shake video featuring a live duck (it is a student’s pet duck).
• Three baseball players who attend Titusville High School were suspended for their version in Brevard County, Florida. The last time Brevard made national news, was when it banned–then unbanned–Fifty Shades of Grey.
• Nyack and Tappan Zee High School students also faced dashed hockey playoff hopes when the team was ruled ineligible to compete due to disciplinary action after making a Harlem Shake video.
• Before the filming could even take place, and despite attempting to call it off, a student who had organized his classmates to make a video was suspended from Forest Hills High School in Queens, NY.
• Over 40 students from grades eight through twelve were suspended from Calvary Baptist Academy in Louisiana for participating in the video, deemed “vulgar” by school officials.
• Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania suspended 11 student-athletes for their version.
• Thirteen students at Brownsville High School in western Pennsylvania were suspended after making a version. A school official called filming in a classroom “a safety issue.”
• Nine students at Union High School in Grand Rapids, MI were suspended from school for two days for doing the dance in class.
• Members of the boy’s basketball team at Ridgemont High School in OH were given suspensions and community service after making their own locker room version of the video. "It just blew my mind," one player said. "I was shocked."
• A student in Tazewell, Virginia was suspended for his video, though other students had made their own versions as well.