The Tempest Spills out of the Teapot
Once the newspapers got the story, The simple case became
a cause celebre. The boys were interviewed, 
seen on TV, and regarded by their fellow students as heros.
"They are not delinquents or hoods," one reporter wrote, "but 
clean-cut American boys who are being harassed by the monolithic
school system." One caustic editorial referred to the school decision as
arbitrary and inane. Even more, a false story circulated about the 
boys being rock-n-roll performers whose indigent families needed
their salaries. Finally the Civil Liberty Union jumped into the fray
with a court order stipulating the principal be required to show
cause why the boys should not be allowed to return to class.

One swallow does not make the summer--"Sure, the Yankees won their
opening game, but one swallow does not make a summer."
(don't jump to conclusions based on incomplete evidence)