The five seniors plan on showing up here for school Friday morning, as they have every morning for the past several days.
Each time the school has denied them access, and Friday will likely be no different.
Since their suspension, the students have tried multiple times to go back to class at Central High's East Campus, but have not been allowed to return.
Thursday, their lawyers hoped a judge would force the district to allow the students to go back to their classes based on a previous court ruling.
But the district appealed -- and now, the case is on its way to an appeals court.
Lawyers for the suspended students say the issue is becoming complicated and expensive for both sides.
"A writ takes 40, 50, 60 hours of time at $300 dollars an hour that's 15, 20, 40 thousand dollars," said the student's attorney Charles Magill.
Lawyers expect to have a case hearing before a judge sometime next week.
The district calls the cutting down of the two trees in the quad area on campus last month "significant vandalism" with damage estimated between $7,500 and $14,000. But the students described it as a "senior prank" meant to deprive their junior classmates of shade.
Their families agree the students should be disciplined and offered to pay restitution, but sued the district when the students were forced to attend continuation school.
