How exactly do “permanent records” work? Do they actually exist, especially beyond school?
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Generally in life you will be judged by your behaviors and actions at or around the time of being judged. In school, your record of any disciplinary action can help a school justify a worse/lesser punishment, but beyond school a record of disciplinary action from so many years before can’t really be used to hurt you because it’s perfectly likely that you have grown as a person since your time in grade school.
An alternative way of thinking about this would be to ask yourself if someone would deserve to “get away” with something due to a lack of permanent record – in which the answer is no. A good person shouldn’t be worried about their past troubles coming back to haunt them, and a bad person shouldn’t lean on a clean record to defend them.
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