This was the rule at my school too. "Zero-tolerance" they called it. Yet I bet if I'd punched the principal I'd have been the only one in trouble.
There's an interesting social experiment right there.
It wasn't actually just fighting back that was against the rules. Zero-tolerance means "you better not even have it coming or we're filing a police report and suspending you". i.e: if someone sucker-punches you and you just lay down and take the beating you are still suspended and the school is still going to try to press charges.
See, at my school they just said you should run away. I considered asking how they felt about containment, shoulder locks and such (the sort of thing that will only hurt if one tries to get out), but probably would have been told to shut up. Luckily, there were barely any fights in my high school.
And when a friend of mine did get ambushed in the hallway by some upperclassman with a rage issue, he didn't get in trouble for falling down and bleeding all over the place. So I guess that's good.
And when a friend of mine did get ambushed in the hallway by some upperclassman with a rage issue, he didn't get in trouble for falling down and bleeding all over the place. So I guess that's good.
Unprovoked bleeding is one of the worst problems facing today's youth, and must be uncompromisingly dealt with. As for falling down, just think of the repair bills to buildings if everyone just gratuitously collapsed all the time!
Your school sounds like a lax liberal free-for-all.
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There's an interesting social experiment right there.
It wasn't actually just fighting back that was against the rules. Zero-tolerance means "you better not even have it coming or we're filing a police report and suspending you". i.e: if someone sucker-punches you and you just lay down and take the beating you are still suspended and the school is still going to try to press charges.
And when a friend of mine did get ambushed in the hallway by some upperclassman with a rage issue, he didn't get in trouble for falling down and bleeding all over the place. So I guess that's good.
Unprovoked bleeding is one of the worst problems facing today's youth, and must be uncompromisingly dealt with. As for falling down, just think of the repair bills to buildings if everyone just gratuitously collapsed all the time!
Your school sounds like a lax liberal free-for-all.
yeah, thats kinda messed up. But really, could third graders actually do this? Seriously?
They should give those kids some counseling.
but they're listening to every word I say
They should send those kids to find Osama.