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Posted on 07/19/2011 8:05:41 AM PDT by Daffynition
A stunning report today on the utter failure of so-called 'Zero Tolerance' programs in Texas public schools.
1200 WOAI news reports that after a decades long experiment in punishing students for even the smallest infraction, with policies which have allowed dopey school administrators to expel honor students for bringing aspirin or bottle openers to class, or for young deer hunters to have unloaded deer rifles in the trunk of their car in the school parking lot, the Council of State Government's Justice Center says the programs have given us a generation of expelled students, and schools which are not any safer than they were under old policies.
Michael Thompson, who headed the study, says an amazing six out of ten Texas high school students have been suspended for expelled or suspended from class at least once over the past six years.
Zero tolerance policies are about avoiding decision making. No matter what punishment a principal decides on somebody is going to complain, if they don’t get to make a decision because there’s a zero tolerance policy in place then they get a pass.
It gave the liberals a chance to raise the suspension rates for whites (especially boys). So they can suspend and child for drawing a picture of a gun same as a child who actually possesses a gun. They can suspend or expel the boy scout with an axe in the trunk of his car or a key chain swiss army knife tool, same as a child with a switch blade in his pocket.
At the time, liberal judges claimed treatment was racially unequal as “proven” by unequal outcomes. They forced schools to keep minority rapists and gang bangers in their seats. So zero tolerance was introduced as the solution. It was a hope for “more equal” race outcomes in punishment quotas.
Translation: The less educated they are; the more controllable they are.
Please remember that this “Liberal” policy was enacted by a “Conservative” State legislation. The same thing happened here in FL. The Republican legislature and Republican Governor made this law.
I never understood how anyone could have thought that this was a good idea.
Believe it or not, there are still some good public school administrators left. I know one who ignored the zero tolerance policy and swept an incident under the rug. The guy risked his career in order to protect a kid from the system he worked for.
By your *translation*...the students in today’s schools should be *mid ‘n meek* by now. That’s the farthest thing from the truth. Public schools are extremely dangerous places. I wish it were otherwise.
I don’t think you understood what i said.
Fine.
CHANNELVIEW, TX (KTRK) -- We have an update on a book ban appeal at Brown Elementary School. A Channelview ISD's parent wanting one kid's book banned from the library has finally gotten her wish.
Back in May, we told you that Tammy Harris had filed a complaint with the school. She wanted "The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby" pulled from the library because it contained the phrase 'poo poo head.'
Harris said her son was suspended for using the same phrase.
A committee rejected the complaint last month, but Harris appealed and won and now the book is banned.
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