zero tolerance is a liability issue. If the schools employ zero tolerance, no matter what they stop, they prevented anything from opening them up to lawsuits. It is easier to defend expelling butter knives on campus than to defend giving detention to someone with a broadsword, especially if broadsword boy comes back to do a william wallace.
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"no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
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