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There are the obvious comments about trump being a pedo and all but I think there is also another subject at play here

The US loves to apply zero tolerance policies. Thesr sound impressive, "zeeerroooo tolerance, we will do everything to stop the bad guy!" But in reality it's just virtue signalling without doing anything about the real problem.

Zero tolerance policies make it that the institution doesn't have to deal with any real problems. A student is a potential problem? Expel them, arrest them, get rid of them. This way, you don't have to deal with anything and fuck that student, who cares about them?

A 12 year girl writes on her desk that she likes a clasmate? Arrest her with handcuffs and all and throw her in jail. (True story)

A girl doesn't do her homework? Send her to something that effectively is a jail. Why spend time to support her, try to figure out what are the causes behind her problems? Just get rid of it. Eto tolerance, baby!

Somebody at school or work get bullied forever and finally snaps and hits back? Investigating WHY would take up resources, time, effort, it would cost money that can go to the shareholders and the CEO. Just fire that person, problem gone. That the bullies remain is not a problem, who cares about that? That that, over time, makes ymthe environment in your organization more and more toxic is not your problem.

I see all these US mass shootings done by young kids and young adults, and I just wonder. I know that the easy access to guns is an enormous issue that a handful of assholes don't want to fix, but these zero tolerance policies too have a lot of influence on this, I think.

The USA needs to start dealing with their problems instead of just expelling and jailing every person who has a problem

The US president is a pedophile. Victim blaming is a standard now, pedophilia and kiddy pron is protected these days. We're living in a really shitty dystopia these days.

If I was her dad, I'd be asking to take candid photo of the staff that took that decision, for no particular reasons, and see them stumble. But apparently "boys will be boys" remain strong :/

I think it's time to start actually protecting and caring for children instead of using them as a scapegoat.

Honestly? Not being in that school anymore is probably a good thing, especially for her. Record be damned; not one single fucking thing that i went through in school went on to matter to anyone but me. And unfortunately all that stayed relevant to me was the trauma. so, yeah, I'd say NOT being forced to suffer in that concentration daycamp full of shitbag crotchgoblins who hate her is an improvement.

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Good for her.

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I hope her ex-classmate never forgets that punch and re-lives it every time the thought to deepfake porn of someone resurfaces.

So a boy made child p**n of a classmate and wasn't punished but the victim of the crime was?

Americans really living up to their president's standards eh

I hope her parents took her out for pizza, ice cream and signed her up for a kickboxing class. Because I would be proud if she did that, honestly.

She asked them to stop, the school did nothing. Well, then it’s time to handle it yourself.

Schools with zero tolerance policies are bullshit.

Sometimes kids hit other kids. They're figuring shit out.

Plus sometimes situations deserve a little violence.

Give a warning and expell the boy for the AI image instead. That does a hell of a lot more damage than a light smacking.

Girlboss energy

She was 100% in the right and this is not morally ambiguous

We need to find out how to raise boys that cant even conceive of this kind of conduct

I hope they win the lawsuit.

I have a feeling it was the oh-so-popular "0 tolerance" policy that she was punished and he wasn't. Because the policy didn't cover what he did. And schools these days love to avoid accountability or being adults when it matters.

A very big issue with our education system is that there's no nuance in it. The way the system is set up makes it so that schools are incentivized to compete with each other to please the district, and the district to please the state. That's how they get their funding. What this leads to is schools putting their best interests ahead of their students. If schools prioritized the students, they would've taken the context of the story and punished the bully and not the victim. However, since they prioritize themselves, they tried to keep the story under wraps to avoid bad PR, and expelled her regardless of context so they can distant themselves and save their image.