If you teach kids that they have no rights whatsoever, then kids will eventually view, as they grow older, that their elders and peers are undeserving of rights as well.
Zero-tolerance policies teach kids that the United States is NOT the land of the free.
It depends maybe on the school and the type of student. If you live in an area of high gang activity, it's best if there is zero tolerance so the gangs are out on the street or in jails and prisons where they belong --- some of these kids don't belong in school at all. If a kid thinks school is where they go to deal drugs or fight --- then they have no good reason to be there and ruin the other kids' chance at an education.
Zero-tolerance policies teach kids that the United States is NOT the land of the free.
Very good analysis. What can be done about it? I think US schools have passed the point of no return on this one...
I myself believe that public schooling should NOT be compulsary, but if it is going to be, students should be afforded full rights as citizens under the constitution. If you make someone go to a building all day long, indoctrinate them all day statist propaganda, curtail their rights while they are there, and threaten them with arrest if they fail to attend...
Isn't that basically slavery?