Why we hate schools

As someone who has been in school or worked in school for all but six years of his life, I always get upset when i see another article of schools doing something stupid. And sometimes schools do stupid things.
a school in north Carolina suspended a 4th grader for two days because a substitute teacher overheard him telling a classmate that one of his teachers was cute. they claimed it was sexual intimidation.  An 8 year old calling a teacher cute is Sexual intimidation. Personally, I don't think an 8 year old is capable of intimidating anyone over the age of 10 and cute is not what I would think of as an intimidating comment.
I remember my 7th grade year at Harding Jr high School. I was 11, maybe 12, we had a young English teacher, Miss Fruchtman. She was maybe 22 or 23 and cute was not one of the words that the boys in the school used to describe her. If cute rates a two day suspension, we would have been out until we could shave.  She was actually my doctors daughter. My father and her father had gone to the same High School in Europe, they used to repeat latin statements to each other that they learned in school. to their amusement and to my boredom. His daughter was never the less, stunning, and anyone overhearing the comments passing among her prepubescent male students would by Carolina standards be totally shocked.
I can't understand why people running schools can't understand that kids are kids and not short adults. They are usually silly and rarely mean what they say or do. And to accuse 8 year olds with sexual intimidation against adults merely adds to the public conception that schools suck. I weep for my occupation