You’re arguing in bad faith and putting words in my mouth
Suspending students from school for weeks, while protecting the victims temporarily from contact, has the side effect of withholding education from children. Surely they won’t miss anything important while suspended for 4-8 weeks, it’s not like education (or rather the lack thereof) and crime has a strong correlation.
Any justice system should have these priorities:
- Protecting current victim(s)
- Preventing future victimizations.
- Rehabilitating the perpetrator(s)
The U.S. justice system sole priority is bloodlust. That’s part of the reason police brutality goes largely ignored: it only affects “criminals” and they deserve it anyway.
Now: how does the “tough on crime” attitude of the prosecution as reflected in the article protect current or future victims for more than a few months?
There shouldn’t even be admission based on what you score in some random test. My (non-US) university accepted everyone who applied, at least for my field of study. Does that mean many people drop out after a semester or two? Absolutely, but there are countless people completing their studies who would have never gotten a chance to do so otherwise. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to prove themselves?