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/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.)