User blog comment:WarrenWitch/Yang nails it, Pyrrha gets her man, Weiss chooses the lesser of two evils...and Ruby hits a crow/@comment-11942246-20130816050909/@comment-10390252-20130816105115

@Zolnir,

What did I think the students would have to fight? Robot simulators, training dummies, non-lethal booby-traps and the like. Sticking them in an uncontrolled combat with monsters that would kill and eat them is insane and would have had Beacon closed down years ago by outraged parents of crippled or killed students. There may be advanced tests against "live" opponents for the upper years but putting neophytes straight into a kill-or-be-killed scenario with diabolic monsters just doesn't strike me as plausible in any universe based on sane human behaviour.

To me, Ozpin was just stirring the pot with the 'you must fight or die' speech and wasn't actually expecting the students to be facing lethal opposition. If those are Grim, they sneaked into the test zone without his knowledge. If they aren't, then they will scare, lightly wound or knock unconscious but nothing wose. Nothing else makes logical sense.