A student was suspended from school in South Carolina for bringing to school a drawing of a nonrealistic bomb, imitating a video game.

"Zero tolerance" is a damaging practice, and it deserves condemnation in general. What it means in practice is, "We have to be idiotic because we made an idiotic rule and now we have to follow it."

Note how the school officials duck the question of whether their actions are legitimate by claiming to protect the privacy of the victim. That's a standard symptom of abuse of power.

The students now have a great chance to take those officials down a peg with an "I am Spartacus" response. Imagine if 50 of the best students hand the principal similar bomb drawings and say, "I'd like to take a few days off from school, so now you have to suspend me!" They would find a way to change this idiotic rule.