Prank Gone Wrong

17 year old son is on swim team basically forced to participate by water polo coach. He and many of his friends hate swim but participate to please wp coach. Swim coach is a complete dick to the kids, over works them and expects them to swim full sets all while they are doing water polo. My son spends approximately 4-5 hours in a pool 5-6 days a week. These kids are exhausted.Up coming swim event only competing against themselves was supposed to happen last Saturday but didn’t because someone “pooped” in the pool. My son didn’t poop in the pool, but he and his friends created fake poop from a candy bar so that they could get two days in a row of sleeping in. I didn’t know about this until after it happened....and I was pissed, until he told me why. And I suspected it was him because he and our exchange student used to watch YouTube videos on how to make fake poop...I mean it is kind of funny.Of course he’s in trouble with the school and they are accusing him of actually pooping in the pool. they have no proof (because he didn’t poop) and one of the swimmers told their mom that he heard the maintenance guy tell the coach that it was not poop but a peanut butter and chocolate bar. The coach still cancelled the event, which is what the kids wanted.Now it’s Monday and he and his friends get called into the office individually to rat each other out, which they are not doing. This is infuriating the athletics director and vice principal of athletics. They’re intimidating and threatening these kids and treating them like garbage. I get a phone call and the vp is yelling at me and telling me that he knows my son is guilty because “more than one person has said that they asked him if he did it and he laughed, so basically admitting that he’s guilty.” I couldn’t believe he said that! I actually laughed out loud. I said that’s your admission of guilt?? Then of course he back tracked and started yelling at me, changing his story and saying I put words in his mouth. To which I said, please call me if you need to as you further investigate.So I know my son did this, many of the kids know he did this (and some of the parents do too), I know why he did this but I absolutely do not agree with the tactics that these grown ass men are using to intimidate my son and his friends. I know what he did was wrong but they way these men are treating this kids is unacceptable. They know that the poop was fake but they are acting like it’s real. My dilemma is where do I draw the line? When do I stop defending my son and “turn him in”? I don’t want him to think it’s ok to do this, I mean it’s funny but now it’s out of hand. I feel like my son should just admit to doing this and end it all. But at the same time, I’m so mad at the way these educators are treating our kids. They’re good kids that are over worked, under appreciated and treated like garbage. I don’t know what to do. I’m seriously so torn over this and I honestly wish I didn’t know the actual truth about this situation so I could have a leg to stand on. Side note: one of the dads has hired legal representation because of they way these men continue to badger his son about other issues. These kids aren’t super stars academically, socially or even athletically, but they try their best. And I’m honestly undecided about what to do here. Please help! via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2wpnNDy