Last Sunday’s Washington Post story (February 20, 2011) about a local high school student who recently committed suicide has set off a tsunami of protest in the community directed at Fairfax County Public Schools “zero-tolerance” system of school discipline. I am not surprised. As a former member of the Fairfax County School Board (FCPS) from 1999 – 2009, I served on three school board member panels for literally hundreds of appeals from families of students who had been recommended by the administration for expulsion and transferred out of their home schools.