Reddit, what zero-tolerance school stories do you have?

Make them juicy.

My sister almost got suspended in the third grade

because my mom put a plastic butter knife in her lunch one day.

I forget why she needed it for her lunch.

One of the lunchroom aides spotted her using it

and sent her right to the principal's office,

and they called my mom to come in.

This was 10 years ago. My cousin, one grade lower than me, got into a fight at school. Zero

Tolerance policy says they are both suspended. Attached to this policy is if a student is involved

in three separate fights within their time at the high school,

then they were expelled. Within two weeks of my cousin returning, one of the guy's friends

started a fight with my cousin. They are both suspended. A few weeks after he returns again,

another friend of the original kid starts a fight with my cousin. In each situation, the other

kid threw the first punch. Zero tolerance

each time means it didn't matter. That is how children outsmarted the zero tolerance policy

and why my cousin graduated from a private high school. When I was in year 10, grade 9 for Americans,

we all had to line up to go into the dinner hall. For whatever reason,

they put the menu with what they were serving that day at the front of the queue, so I walked

to the front to read it. As I was walking back, a tiny year-eight kid shouted over to me,

Hey, stop trying to cut in the line, you jerkhead! I just told her to screw off and mind his own

business, as it's the kind of

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