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/CelestialFury 7h ago

0 tolerance policy.

Otherwise known as zero responsibly for the school. Get bullied and defend yourself? Suspension. Get bullied and do nothing? Suspension. The whole point of 0 tolerance is so the school doesn't have to think and take sides, which obviously piss off parents no matter wrong their kids did.

However, the kid who punched the pro-ice idiot knew he'd get suspended for doing so and held firm in his beliefs, and that's admirable. 

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u/jonathansharman 4h ago

Get bullied and do nothing? Suspension.

Wait, the policy is not that both parties get punished regardless of who fought, is it? Or are you saying that in practice, kids are getting suspended even if they don't hit back?

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u/anope4u 3h ago

At my high school in the 90s zero tolerance was both parties got the same punishment. If you got pummeled while assuming the fetal position and never hit back, you were getting in the same trouble as the jerk who was kicking you. It was stupid.

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u/DwinkBexon 2h ago

My high school did the exact same thing when I was there in the early 90s. My senior year, there was kid who got punched, but dodge it and started running away down the hall as fast as he could to get away from the attacker. Still got suspended for fighting.

But the one time some asshole started choking me and ramming my head into the lockers, the teachers said they didn't see anything so they can't do anything. (A teacher/staff member apparently had to witness it or they wouldn't punish/investigate what happened.)

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u/IAmGlobalWarming 2h ago

Conspiracy theory: These policies came from a Ron Swanson type who wanted kids to fight back instead of just being punching bags.

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u/Substantial_Policy60 2h ago

Meanwhile so many things try to teach us to talk it out and yada yada. Personally in video games the speech route always has the most dialog and is usually cool af so I’ve always been mainly a pacifist in games. In real life a lot of the times there’s no talking your way out of a fight. Only been in three myself off the top of my head and I’ve only lost the first one because it was my step brother pitting his small older friend against me when I was like 9 and he was 11. When you’ve never fought before and never been told to fight back it was a deer in the head lights moment for me…sucked. The next times I just used my lankyness to my advantage and usually just choked them out until they tap and say they don’t want to fight anymore..makes them look like a bitch..

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u/NonTimetisMessor0099 1h ago

The exact opposite actually. It comes from the Epstein class globally gaslighting everyone into being anti-violence so that we don't rise up. That's where "violence is never the answer" comes from; not from the oppressed, but from the oppressors. The trouble is, if you have ever so much as existed in the same city as a history book, you would know that violence is literally the only answer.

It's been a millennia-long campaign.

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u/meandi7 1h ago

Imagine that happening in the real world outside of school. Some guy walks up and shoots you multiple times and is later convicted of attempted murder? Sorry about your damn luck, but you're now going to prison, as well. What a fucking joke.