Good students marred?

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Recently, I have come to wonder, is a zero tolerance policy within a school really helping the students? Personally, I feel that this policy has cuased a great deal of harm to several students in my school, me being one of them. What happened in my case is quite simple. I was put in a class (Music History and Theory), due to lack of space in other classes. This would not have been a problem, if it were not for some of the other students in the class. You see, in this class were several of our schools biggest trouble makers. This wwas not a problem for most of the class, for they did not do anything physical to me. THey did attack me with words, but I chose to ignore that, for it was just words. Well, one day, one of these kids decided it would be funny to pull my chair out fomr under me, as I went to sit in it. Well, afterwards, i got up, dusted myself off, and asked teh kid "Hey, what the heck?" NExt thign I know, he starts pushing me, and I push back. Luckily for me he didn't throw a punch, but, none the less, I ended up being suspended. Mind you, I was, while not the perfect student, a very good one. I was a member of the National Honor's society, Student Council, and was proud of the fact that I had never been inside the school's office for a discipline problem. So, I get a 3 day out of school suspension, and am forced to quit NHS, and student council, all because a troublemaker started a fight with me. Needless to say, about a month later, he gets in another fight, and gets expelled.... Is it fair that, because of my school's zero tolerance policy, that I must suffer such severe consequences, for a one time infraction? Or am I just upset over this, in my opinion, policy of stupidity?