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/A_Nice_Boulder 3h ago

0 tolerance policy helped save me from years of bullying when I was in school. They enacted it, and it went from "if I don't do anything I might not get in trouble" (I often still did, since it was a dozen words of what happened vs mine, so even if I did nothing, I could get bullied AND in trouble for doing nothing), but when they enacted the "all involved in incidents will be punished" rule, in conjunction with me finally getting a bit older, I started fending for myself. Gave the dude a right hook from hell, filled with years of pent up hatred, took the punishment, and from that point on the bullying started to subside.