From what I know, the trial thing started from like... stuff that happened bloody yeeeears ago. Like, the school's founding which was hundreds of years ago. It's so long ago that the exact circumstances of what happened are probably either lost to time or you'll have to dig really deep to find it.

[ she frowns. ]

Principal Bear said it's not a rule he can change, because of whatever politics that happen at a school level. [ she clearly has no idea what that means because her expression is just baffled as she says it. ] The whole thing about old schools is that they really pride themselves on tradition and not wanting to do change. It's why the whole Dorm Wars things got everyone super interested-- it's something new.