Student kicked out of school for drawing a picture of a gun. This is the result of "zero tolerance" policies and these policies relieve educators of the need to evaluate an incident and make a decision, AND it allows them to escape responsibility for the actions they take in such cases. It is NOT a good policy because it amounts to a conviction without anyone evaluating the merits and appropriateness of the penalty: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0906thur2-06.html