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they still made us both apologize and shake hands like that meant shit

The name of that tactic is escaping me now, but my wife (a teacher) told me about it. Sometimes it goes further like trying to force the kids to "work it out", which is horribly unfair to a kid that's been bullied and assaulted. 
I've told both of my kids if they ever find themselves in that situation to absolutely refuse. Call or text one of us if possible and respond to anything a school employee says with "call my parents now" over and over.
Jesus, she tells them truthfully it belongs to another kid, they search her lockers and find nothing, strip search her and find nothing and still decide to suspend her. >

Schools are extremely unfair to students. I remember getting bullied in school and getting in trouble for cursing as a student was shoving me into a locker. Also saw other students getting suspended for getting beat up. One kid had a broken jaw and was just raising his hands to his face to avoid additional damage, still got in trouble. 
This story doesn’t surprise me. I bet even if she didn’t admit to having the vape at one point they’d still suspend her out of frustration. Lots of psychopaths working in schools. >

Zero tolerance is the stupidest fucking policy to ever exist. >

It’s not zero tolerance at this point. It’s zero tolerance for victims and full tolerance for the bullies. >

In my experience it’s zero tolerance for victims and -1 tolerance for bullies. I got punched in the back of the head once and the puncher ran off. I got suspended for three days and he got suspended for 10. It had happened before, him hitting me for no reason and both of us getting in trouble. Since I didn’t fight back he always got in more trouble than me but they still made us both apologize and shake hands like that meant shit. At least he got punished at home for it (I think he had abusive parents)