This is off topic, but I'm thinking I'd rather have my kid get a non-sadistic paddling by a school staff than endure the life-wrecking results of the Zero Tolerance Policy.
All the time we hear of a kid who had one beer, or a few crumbs of weed, meds in his locker or an airsoft gun in his backpack being expelled from schools, not graduating, committing ѕυιcιdє, being denied entrance to college, having a criminal record for their first stupid mistake.
So, while I ABHOR the type of situation Lighthouse witnessed, if it was simply left at that--punishment administered and that's the end of it, go back and finish school--I'd choose this over having a kid's whole future ruined for what would be a venial sin.
Hope that makes sense.