The school “has zero tolerance for weapons on school grounds.”
Almost anything can be a weapon. Bats, books, chairs, erasers, pens, pencils, etc.
One “weapon” I’ve been attacked by, from a student, is a wirebound notebook...threw it at me as I had my back turned to him. This was a student who is receiving special services in school.
These types of students don’t belong in public schools; although this happened in a “closed environment” classroom, this particular student had also been within the general education classrooms periodically.
But, the federal government has decided, in its infinite wisdom, to have all students be placed in the “least restrictive environments.” It’s called “inclusion.” It doesn’t matter that these children need more help and care than any regular teacher can provide. And these types of students are assigned a teacher aid or special ed teacher to individually travel with them during the day.
Multiple that times how many students in each building, in each district, in each county, in each state? We are talking MAJOR BUCKS for individual students to have personal teachers traveling around with them during the day, every day.
It’s ridiculous, imho.