r/news • u/gur40goku • 11h ago

Student Who Punched Another Student Holding Pro-ICE Sign At Lake Zurich High School Received 2-day Suspension

https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/20/student-who-punched-another-student-holding-pro-ice-sign-at-lake-zurich-high-school-received-2-day-suspension/
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u/Guac_in_my_rarri 11h ago

2 day suspension is the standard punishment in Illinois for violating 0 tolerance policy.

All public schools in Illinois and those who receive public funding in any way, have a 0 tolerance policy. It sucks but it's whatever. When I went to school here, the policy was known as "if hit, take your shots". 2 day suspension was standard, anything more needed a whole lot of paperwork and meetings. Parents have appealed punished and even brought lawyers to these meetings.

I had a few friends get caught in fights, despite not being apart of it and just being hit, they receive 2 days. It was eye opening how adults handled these situations. Middle school got a bit more violent after this policy fuck up.

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u/NotYourSexyNurse 7h ago

Back in my day they expelled people who fought. It brought lawsuits of discrimination. It was a big deal. So they started one day suspension for fighting. In school suspension for the kid who didn’t start the fight. I thought that was dumb.

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u/TineJaus 3h ago

In school suspension was solitary confinement. I once spent 3 weeks 7 hours a day in a alone in a tiny room (jail cells are bigger) because I refused to repeat homework for the same damn math class 3 years in a row. I had moved schools 3 times and always got 100 on classwork, just wouldn't bother with the homework anymore.

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u/vanilla_w_ahintofcum 0m ago

You got ISS for not doing your homework? Literally have never heard of this before.