With one breath we condemn school administrators for their "zero tolerance" protocals which absolve them of using common sense, and with our next we condemn a judge who seems to require it.
I don't think attacking the judge's character is helpful. He seems to have a knotty problem on his hands. I wouldn't want to be the one who had to untangle it -- without a sword.
To be quite honest, I have to think the judge's "knotty" problem is precisely as I suggested it was. Either that or he's a God-damned fool.