you're either ignorant or in denial.....like most liberals....
Zero tolerance policies are turning schools into zero common sense institutions. It is not an exaggeration to state that the public schools are becoming the bastions for conditioning our young people to live in a fascist police state devoid of common sense, any understanding of child psychology and any semblance of enjoying civil liberties.
A "zero tolerance" policy is one that enacts harsh punishment for any violation of school rules, without exceptions and without any consideration of mitigating circumstances.*
Zero Tolerance for guns is not about school safety, it is about gun control. Zero Tolerance for bullies is not about school safety, it is about legitimizing and promoting homosexuality. Zero Tolerance in general seems to be mechanism used by teachers and school administrators to escape the burden of tough decisions, avoid charges of favoritism, and let the local police do their dirty work.
There are many cases surfacing, all over the country, in which Zero Tolerance has trumped common sense. An eight-year-old was suspended from school for three days, for pointing a breaded chicken finger at a teacher and saying "Pow, pow, pow." Two eight-year-olds were charged with "making terrorist threats" because they were playing cops and robbers with a paper gun. And the list goes on and on.
Someone at the Rutherford Institute stated it well: "By refusing to consider each individual's personal history and the intentions that inspired their actions, zero tolerance policies deny the unique worth and dignity of every person."1 Zero Tolerance policies put teachers and principals in the position of having to make irrational decisions in relatively simple cases. It makes no sense to suspend children for playing cops-and-robbers on the playground or giving a cough drop to a friend.
Zero-tolerance vs. common sense