You are right about the policies but keep in mind that we also have adults — teachers and other educators — who implement them. I don’t know what adult in their right mind would suspend a child for doing something this innocent. It traumatizes the child for no reason. It teaches the child that there is no connection between bad intent and punishment. It teaches a child to be fearful of authority figures, or to not respect them. Ultimately, these policies will be very damaging to our society when the kids who had to suffer through them become young adults.
Unfortunately these so called authority figures do not deserve any respect.
It should be clear to all. The only fix for this crap is to put an end to government schools. All education must be private.
Government run schools was just a bad idea from the outset but years of taxpayer funded, government serving government institutions have turned our schools into left wing cesspools.