One School Zero-Tolerance Policy Could Change

Under Tennessee schools’ current zero-tolerance policies, any student involved in a fight at school faces disciplinary action, but those rules could soon change.
Adults on the street are allowed the right to self-defense if they are attacked, but newly proposed legislation would make that true for students on school campuses as well.
The student self-defense bill would eliminate the notion of zero-tolerance and allow students to fight back in defense of themselves or to step in and fight in defense of a fellow classmate without fear of punishment.
Lawmakers will have the chance to hear the bill for the first time today when it goes to the Senate education committee.