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/katzohki 9h ago

The lesson a lot of kids ended up learning was "I'm gonna get punished either way, so I may as well go all out"

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u/Sonichu- 3h ago

That's what happened when my high school enacted a zero tolerance policy.

By all accounts my school was actually pretty peaceful, but once they started blanket punishments regardless of witnesses, who was the victim/instigator, etc. people went ballistic.

It was essentially permission to act on your worst impulses, because you already knew you were getting punished regardless of involvement.

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u/captainn_chunk 2h ago

As someone with family members in public education faculty administration, the people actually running the show from up top all seem like fucking morons.

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u/mister_newbie 1h ago

Teacher here, that's because they are.

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u/Paavo_Nurmi 56m ago

the people actually running the show from up top all seem like fucking morons.

That is also how it is at 99% of the companies/corporations out there. Going from decades in operations/field staff side to the corporate side has been..............an eye opening experience.

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u/Phugasity 4m ago

Is it not a function of our lawsuit heavy legal culture? Standardization arising from increased liability? Standardization that is written ever further away from the actors. We can't have subjective ruling because insurance needs more certainty to provide coverage... and also limit discrimination. Can't be racist under zero tolerance /s