DURHAM -- When Paulette Thorpe's grandson was suspended from Carrington Middle School for writing graffiti on the walls, she begged school officials not to kick him out of school for 10 days.
She said her grandson would scrub the wall himself, or go to Saturday school detention as punishment. But her pleas fell on deaf ears, she said.
"This zero tolerance thing is not logical in the real world," Thorpe said Wednesday night. "He was out of school for 10 days for graffiti, a small thing that has nothing to do with violence. But it was like he had murdered somebody."
