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So, this writer thinks schools should take disciplinary action only if student behavior involves violence and the necessity of police involvement?
This entire article has a PC stench about it and the stats sound pretty doubtful.
Zero tolerance policies are a way to teach thought control at a very young age.
Have you ever heard how an Elephant is trained? A young elephant is tethered with a bracelet attached to a massive chain. No matter how hard it tries, it cannot budge it. The animal learns to stop trying. Later in life, the chain is replaced with a simple rope. Although the elephant could easily break the rope, it does not try, because in its mind, it is still the massive chain of its youth.
Zero tolerance policies fly in the face of law. They are rules imposed by bureaocrats on our children that have nothing to do with following the law or safety, but they have everything to do with conditioning our children to be sheep. The punishments are way beyond that which would be imposed for a similar offense in a courtroom, if such offense would even be brought into a courtroom. What they threaten is your childs right to continue to recieve an education in the public school system.
Personally, I abhor the public school system, but to kick children out of it for bringing legal products to school is a travesty. If we had a good voucher program, a school could implement zero tolerance and if the student is kicked out, then at least their future is not threatened because they could go to a different school. The reality is though, zero tolerance would come to an end because it only works as a threat against the childs future. Zero tolerance is a tool the left is using to ensure the next generation does not rebel against them.
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The schools should use a little judgment and common sense; something sorely lacking in a great many educators today.
Expelled for aspirin? Give me a break.