I am a little confused...

Ok, so my daughter is currently in 6th grade.  She is attending an International Baccalaureate school. She has always made straight A's (pretty much) and has never, ever, ever, been in trouble...until recently.
For a very short time she was going to a public elementary school, now she is going to a public middle school...and now she is experiencing a phenomenon that has my head just spinning...
GROUP PUNISHMENT...so a "few" of the sixth graders in her class got in trouble, something that had to do with a fight.  Next thing I know she is climbing in my car, absolutely exhausted, sunburned, almost in tears because the WHOLE sixth grade had to walk in a square, in the 80 degree sun, for 30 minutes.  Now yes, at that moment I was going on only her side of the story.  But was she tired? YES. Was she sunburned? YES. Was she almost in tears? YES.  Did she do anything wrong?  At that moment, NO!
I will tell you that I am going to talk to her Vice-principle.  I am going to get to the bottom of this and get another side of the story, but this is not the first time I have questioned what are we really teaching our children?
Here is what I am thinking...
Did she get into a fight? NO, because they would have called me.
Did she hurt another student? NO, because they would have called me.
Did she even know which students did get into a fight? NO!
Was she angry? YES!
Did she have a right to be angry? YES!

My thoughts:
Can a police officer give you a ticket because the car in front of you is speeding and you are not? Does it matter is there is two cars on the road or 20?
NO, YOU have to be speeding.

I asked some different people what they thought about the whole deal...
One amazing, christian mother with grown children said : "What does not kill you makes you stronger." Ooookkkk, she's 11 years old.
Someone else said: They are teaching them commodore.
Oooookkkkk, they are not in the military.  They do not eat, sleep, and breathe each other.  They are not in life threatening situations where they have to depend on one another for survival!
Two different people I asked did not think it was right, but didn't think I could do anything about it!

Am I going to do something? YES! Do I know what? NO!-
Oh, and I did talk to my daughter about learning to deal with things that are unfair. Life is not fair....I know that.