My brush with Zero Tolerance (477 hits)
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Submitted by Mr. Awesome <steveisgreat.at.rock.com> (View user info) at 2004-08-28 18:54:16 EDT
I was in seventh grade art class. Our art teacher was giving a speech about crap. We had those big tables where four or five people can work at. On the table was a pencil, its owner sitting across from me. I think his name was Vinny.
Intensly bored, I began to roll Vinny's pencil back and forth. He looked up. Told me to stop. I didn't. This happened several times. Finally, he said that if I touched his pencil one more time, he was going to punch me in the face. Naturally, I reached out and poked the pencil with my finger. He got up, walked around the table, and knocked me out of my chair.
All that was hurt was my dignity. I laughed and said "You're so gay, Vinny!" We were both sent to the office (not because of the comment). We waited for a few minutes, and the principal and my homeroom teacher spoke with Vinny in a private room for a few minutes, them went and took me to another room. We went over the events. I was confident that I had not warranted this attack on my person.
Then, out of nowhere, I was accused. It seems that Vinny had told then that I had made a comment about his grandmother, who had recently died. He had become so enraged, that he had to hit me. I told them that I barely know him, let alone his dead grandmother. They didn't believe me. Now, when I think back, it is obvious that he was trying to cover up the truth of the matter, because if he told them the real reason he hit me, he would have been in a lot more hot water. At the time, I suggested that he had overheard someone else. They didn't believe me.
When they left, I saw the art teacher. Okay, I thought, I can leave soon. Soon, the two came back. They asked if I had called Vinny gay after he had knocked me out of my chair. I told them the truth, wondering why they cared. They informed me that they had a Zero Tolerance policy and that I had violated it. Then they told me that I was to be suspended for three days. I statred crying, and then, as a final insult, they made me go apologize for talking about his greandmother. He had been suspended for three days, too.
When my dad took me home, he beat me so bad that I had a bruise on my face. It was certainely justified, from his point of view (His motto is "the school is always right, and the student never is") He then sat me down at a table and told me to sit there until he got back from work. I sat for four hours.
If that had happened today, I would have laughed in thier face and told them to eat shit. But I was just a scared child, and they imposed an unfair punishment for a nonexistant crime. This is very mild compared to other Zero Tolerance stories I have heard. The teacher and principal bullied a 12 year old boy with a silly policy, and I was miserable because of it. This is what Zero Tolerance does.
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Submitted by HelloMello (user info) at 2004-09-25 21:27:45 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by RideJohnnyRide (user info) at 2004-08-28 19:52:37 EDT (#)
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No only you.
Submitted by mr.awesome (user info) at 2004-08-28 19:11:23 EDT (#)
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You know you all cried when you were twelve.
Submitted by Freight_Train (user info) at 2004-08-28 19:04:56 EDT (#)
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oh and -2 for crying you piece of fag
Submitted by Freight_Train (user info) at 2004-08-28 19:04:27 EDT (#)
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you should not have admitted something you didnt do.
And that's a lesson to you for being an idiot and provoking somebody who can kick your ass.
The school is right because you are so fucking stupid. First you get this kid angry because you are a dipshit, and then you apologize for something you didn't do because you are a pussy.
You are a pussy dipshit, and the system has worked you well
Submitted by NetProphet (user info) at 2004-08-28 19:01:09 EDT (#)
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You started CRYING?
Weak.