9-year-old suspended after he says he stood up to a bully

In a Colorado school a nine year old was the target of two bullies. They would knock him around. He would tell the teacher as he had been told to do, and #$%& all would happen. Finally, with the approval of his parents, he defended himself and got suspended. It's the school's pesky zero tolerance policy regarding violence. It doesn't acknowledge that violence can have a positive result like ending the attacks on a nine year old by grade school thugs. A school spokesperson said...

District 11 schools employ many anti-bullying teaching techniques … and none of these methods include violence or retaliation.”

None of them seem to be effective either any more than zero tolerance polices are.

H/T to Brock.