I agree with many things in this article because zero tolerance is beggining to spiral out of control.
http://www.theledger.com/article/20091213/EDIT01/912135019/1398
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Cartoons Against Zero Tolerance
Monday, December 7, 2009
Should Schools Stop Bullying Too?
Zero Tolerance on Cheating
http://www.yucommentator.com/news/how-effective-is-the-zero-tolerance-cheating-policy-1.944327
Friday, December 4, 2009
Lansingburgh Eagle scout suspended for pocket knife in car
Posted by Michael Avitablile
Published: October 20, 2009 - 11:07 AM What has happened to common sense? According to WGY and Fox News, an Honor Student at upstate New York's Lansingburgh High School, Matthew Whalen, has been suspended for twenty days for having a two-inch pocket knife in a locked kit in his car.
Accoding to Fox:
Lansingburgh High has a zero-tolerance policy, and when school officials discovered that Whalen kept his knife locked in his car, he says, they suspended him for five days -- and then tacked on an additional 15 after a hearing.
Let me point some things out: one, Whalen has never been in trouble with the law. Two, he is an honor student in good standing. Three, he has gone through basic training for the military. Four, he is credited with saving a person's life. Five, he is an Eagle Scout. In other words, he is not a trouble student and there seems that nothing warranted the search of his locked car.
More from Fox:
Whalen said he doesn't know who might have said he was carrying a knife, but he was open with school officials.
"And they said, 'Do you own a knife?' I said, 'Yes, I'm a soldier and an Eagle Scout -- I own a knife.'
"And they were like, 'Well, is it in your car or anything?' And I told them, 'Yeah, it's in my car right now.'
"And they asked me to show it to them. I didn't realize it was going to be a problem. I knew it wasn't illegal -- my police chief grandfather gave the knife to me."
This sort of thing is disgusting, really. Clearly this kind of over-policing and Zero Tolerance is ridiculous. There is some good news, however, Whalen has hired a lawyer to defend him.
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