The imperious attitudes and hysterical over-reactions to mostly harmless student violations of some school rule that these ‘educators’ use to punish teens and even elementary school children demonstrates a serious problem in our public schools. Its bad enough that our children are not receiving a useful education. Worse yet, too many teachers and principals act like they were the Nazi Gestapo and our kids are fair game for any kind of punishment the ‘administrators’ feel like handing out. Even to the point of punishing little kids for ridiculous ‘offenses’ such as using their thumb and index finger to momentarily pretend its a ‘gun’. Meanwhile they can’t seem to get a handle on the ‘bullying’ problem in our schools. Perhaps because the real bullies are the administrators. This has to end.
Deserves a repeat. Anti-bullying programs are designed by the bullies to consolidate power over their innocent, impressionable captives. The merciless and arbitrary punishments executed under zero-tolerance school policies serve as a window to the inner malevolent workings of the beast system as a whole.