Originally Posted by bikerTeen

WTF? is the right thing for you to be saying. The principal is no more responsible for you when you are biking as he/she is when your dad is driving you. If you took the bus, I can see how that might be different.
Unless putting rack out could be interpreted as encouraging riding a bike - that implict is that the school is encouraging and supporting bike riding.
Perhaps it one if those things where they say no, but if you do it they wont stop you.
But it has a ring of BS to it too.
Al