Podcast: School‘s Zero Tolerance Policy Is Exactly Why People Did Nothing When Man Was Murdered On A Train

by Casey | Sep 29, 2015 | Blog, Podcast, Podcasts

I know, that sounds like a bold statement, but it’s true.

This time I’m not talking about some stupid zero tolerance policy that requires kids to be hauled away in handcuffs because their pastry looks like a gun. This time it’s about punishing the good samaritan to comes to the aid of a victim of violence.

My whole career I’ve highlighted that schools brainwash kids into thinking they don’t have the right of self-defense. Something that is not only fundamentally contradictory to our legal system, but unnatural. We are born with the right of self-defense and self-preservation … period … end of story. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the streets, our home, the battlefield or school.

The brainwashing starts immediately with the school repeatedly saying “you don’t hit” even if you are hit first. “Come tell a teacher,” they say. A stance so devoid of reality that it should be mocked mercilessly, but it’s also dangerous.

Cody is the kid who stepped up and defended a blind kid being physically assaulted at school. Cody has been hailed as a hero by society. Not the case in the sheltered, impractical realm of academia. The school suspended Cody, and kicked him off the football team. The school claims they have a ‘zero tolerance’ policy for violence of any kind, and Cody violated that policy.

A dangerous, ignorance mindset like that is more common than you’d think. There are countless examples of it in our society. The notion that you aren’t permitted to defend yourself, or others, is rampant.

No other case proves this more perfectly than the recent murder on a DC Metro train. A man attempted to rob another man, the victim resisted, the thug then attacked. The victim screamed for help on a packed train car, no one helped. The thug then pulled out a knife, and started stabbing the victim dozens of times, no one helped, the victim lay lifeless on the train, no one helped, the thug then turned to the other passengers who’d refused to help, and robbed them too.

That’s what Huntington Beach High School is teaching by punishing Cody.

Exit question before the podcast:

If they have a ‘zero tolerance’ policy against all violence, even the defense of the innocent, then would they dare confront a mass shooter to protect students?