I got suspended for a week in high school for being beaten up. I was attacked by another guy while sitting in my desk, I did nothing other than raise my hands to block his punches, and I was suspended for… well, the school couldn’t really explain it, but I was perfectly happy to get a week off.
FoieGrasIsEvil has the right idea. Bring back capital punishment for the little shits.
That’ll teach them not to bring their mobile phones and NintendoDS’s in class.
Where do you live, dude? Cops let little things go all the time.
To be fair, I did in fact mean corporal punishment!
As an aside, why don’t school implement these zero tolerance policies for things like getting to class on time, being quite in class, and in general acting like respectful rather than disrespectful little shits?
Man, if little kids would get suspended for all that shit the wife and I would never be able to work!
They do.
My high school choir was in a competition at another local high school, where I saw a notice posted about the late policy. If a child was not in his classroom by the time the first bell rang, he had to spend his first period in an office, and he would not be allowed to make up missed work.
It’s completely ridiculous. They do it because they’re afraid of gangs.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. Have you ever been let off with a warning? This has happened several times to me. For example, one night I was speeding because I was late for work. I was going 55 in a 35 at 11 PM at night. I told him I was late for work and wasn’t watching how fast I was going. The cop gave me a ticket for speeding 10 over the limit but my insurance card had expired. I had the new one at home, but that doesn’t matter it’s supposed to be in the vehicle at all times.
Now, if there were a zero tolerance policy the car would be impounded for being driven uninsured and I get a ticket for going 20 over the limit, as per the letter of the law. He even told me “by law I’m not supposed to let you drive away. So I’m going to go over to my bike and we’re done here.” I just left and that was that.
Later, the judge looked at my driving record and reduced my speeding ticket fine 20%. Again, zero tolerance would say I would pay the full amount whether it was my first ticket or my 50th. That’s the point I was trying to make, not that we should obey whatever laws are convenient, but that the authority should be able to mete out appropriate punishment.
No kidding! With today’s policies, I would have been suspended so often I would have been essentially home schooled and I was one of the well-behaved brainy kids. And seriously, the OP’s kid imitates a line from the Wolverine movie and gets sent home for a day? At my school, you could get into a brawl and at worst they’d make you stay inside during the next recess to write lines.
That’s how it works, isn’t it?
They hit you. Repeatedly. You hit them. Once.
You get suspended and yelled at. They get condolences.
Then the principal slaps you and your parents finally believe that you’ve been telling them to truth for the last six years.
Ah. Primary school.
Uh, what?
Yeah, I wasn’t “supposed to talk about it”.