I get where zero-tolerance policies are coming from, but two days of detention for running in the halls, one period of in-school suspension for being late to class, and a parent conference for taking a cough drop without permission of the nurse are excessive punishments, amirite?

+423 I get where zero-tolerance policies are coming from, but two days of detention for running in the halls, one period of in-school suspension for being late to class, and a parent conference for taking a cough drop without permission of the nurse are excessive punishments, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Three days of suspension for being caught hugging twice...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Or not being allowed to have drugs at all. Sorry, but I don't want to have to get a pass to the office and walk for 3 minutes when I'm dying of an asthma attack.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My school made me get a doctor's note and an allergist's note before they would let me carry my EpiPen with me, and they STILL ask my mom every now and then if she wouldn't rather just have me leave it with the nurse. But they wouldn't let me eat at a separate table or make any rules banning peanuts, so if someone decided they were going to eat peanut butter next to me I was apparently just supposed to walk across the room and down the hall to the nurse, while going into anaphylactic shock.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In my school you can get suspended for three days if you poke someone and they tell on you. Apparently its "minor assault"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Push someone off of you in self defense while they're trying to beat the crap out of you? In my school, out of school suspension, 3 days minimum.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, at mine, you didn't even have to push back, you could be suspended if someone punched you and you walked away.

by Anonymous 13 years ago