C'mon, Can't This Be Handled Within The School?

I recently received a call from a parent who wanted to hire me to handle her son's juvenile case.  The young man (let's call him Dwight Schrute, as I am watching The Office right now) is being charged with criminal trespass.  Evidently, Dwight was suspended from school and the school has a policy requiring the parents of suspended students to meet with the vice-principal on the student's first day back from suspension to discuss the conditions of the student's continued enrollment.  Well, in this case, Dwight's mom (Mrs. Schrute) did not go to school with Dwight to meet the vice-principal on Dwight's first day back from suspension.  She put Dwight on the bus and he went to school like he normally does.  Dwight went through the entire school day without incident.  Just before Dwight's last class of the day, the vice-principal sees Dwight in the hallway and asks him why he's at school without his mother.  Dwight responds that his mother went to work and couldn't make it.  The vice-principal tells Dwight that he's not allowed back on campus until his mother has attended the required meeting.  The vice-principal then calls campus police and has Dwight arrested for criminal trespass.  This occurs less than one hour before the end of the school day.

Dwight now has a court date and is going to miss another day of school.  He now has a prosecutor who wants to convict him of a Class B Misdemeanor.  He now has a probation officer assigned to his case who is asking for 9 months of probation.  He now has to get a lawyer (through hire or appointment) to protect his rights.  

Can we quit putting these kids into the system for these kinds of things?!?