Several Warren residents and clergy members continue to contest the school district's zero tolerance policy on fighting.

It all started with three girls who got into a fight at Warren Harding High School.  Now that fight has turned into a battle between the community and the school board. Mandy Hackman has the latest.

A night of song, prayer and inspiration at New Jerusalem Fellowship in Warren tonight with hundreds coming together for one purpose...

"What's happening is you have innocent kids being kicked out of school and their futures are gone," Rhonda Bennett said.

At issue, Warren School District's Zero-Tolerance Policy, which has most recently left three high school girls, two of them seniors, expelled because they got into one fight.

"These are not kids who get in trouble, they don't have a chronic behavior problem. These are in fact kids who are honor roll students and have potential to go to college," Bennett said.

That's why the community has rallied together, to fight for present and future students' rights.

"The punishment and the crime, they got to fit, and if they don't fit, they got to acquit," Rev. Alton Merrell of New Jerusalem Fellowship said.

But organizers say it's not enough to just come to the rally. That's why they handed out slips of paper with school board members' names and numbers on them, so they can personally let them know how they feel about the zero-tolerance policy.

Board officials maintain that since the zero-tolerance policy has gone into affect, they've seen a drop in violence.

In the past three years, 162 students have been expelled due to fighting.