A felony also prevents you from doing a great many things, like finding any job or renting or most anything. We have built a society that punishes conviction for life, long after the punishment has been served. Add to that we’ve been making more and more misdemeanors felonies, we are producing a society of misery.

These people are just cruel and self serving. They are scoring points by being more and more radical and destroying lives in exchange. They are vile, and I consider their behavior more felonious than most felons.

In this case, it's to make the potential consequences so severe everyone takes the extremely careful approach, to the detriment of the students.

See also: vague abortion bans, where doctors have to wait for conditions to become acutely life-threatening before removing dead fetuses.