Yet I suspect this same school administration rigidly enforces "zero tolerance" policies regarding drugs and "weapons" to the point where an honor student using a pen knife to clean violin strings would be expelled, smeared, and referred to the police. Liberalism is rot. They wallow in orgiastic pleasure when they make and ruthlessly enforce asinine rules against the law abiding, but consistently refuse to use appropriate discipline and penalties against the real thugs and criminals.
You won't get an argument from me on that.
That's the purpose of zero tolerance. An A student with a small, harmless incident is easier to punish and use as an example than some ghetto head whose parents will sue just to get some pocket change.