Zero tolerance = Zero common sense

Five-year old girl suspended from kindergarten for bringing a bubble-blowing "gun" to school.

“My reason for doing this story is because the principal didn’t seem like she wanted to have a conversation with me this morning about it,” said the mother. “It was a very superior attitude. She made it very clear that she didn’t care what I had to say and that it didn’t matter what I said. It was something that she was going to enforce no matter what.”

No tyranny like a petty tyranny.

In loco parentis - emphasis on loco.