Honor societies, scholarships, and certain group involvement can quickly become out of a child's reach from something as minor as talking back to a teacher.
As it's already been said, zero tolerance = zero thinking. The school district politicians like it because then they dont have to think about it. They simply call the police when a child does anything, rather then deal with it themselves.
This policy in my opinion, is just setting kids up to fail. Treat them like criminals, and they will act like it.
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What's even worse is when these kids commit minor infractions at school and the cops get involved, they're building a criminal record at a very early age, which will disqualify them for a lot of things.Honor societies, scholarships, and certain group involvement can quickly become out of a child's reach from something as minor as talking back to a teacher.
As it's already been said, zero tolerance = zero thinking. The school district politicians like it because then they dont have to think about it. They simply call the police when a child does anything, rather then deal with it themselves.
This policy in my opinion, is just setting kids up to fail. Treat them like criminals, and they will act like it.
Bingo. Teachers are meant to inspire, not belittle, not incarcerate.
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Skaw probably says this to all the girls:
And convicts have to teach unruly students for as their punishment! Excellent idea!
Chris Rock had the right idea, as usual.
"You got an F, Bobby. You know what that means."
"Nooooooooooooooooooo! I DON'T WANNA TOSS THE SALAD! I DON'T WANNNAAAA TOSS THE SALAAAAD! I'MA LEARN TO REEEEAD!"
Zero tolerance policies are way out of line, and even in the right environment like the one I was in, it was fine to carry stuff that'd get other schools to flip the fuck out and expel you. Most of the kids who carried knives did so because it was a tool, not a weapon. That's why I carry a knife, it's a tool for me.
Anyways, that was my ramble on the whole thing. Zero tolerance policies are dumb.
I carry around a knife on me now, as well as clippers and so on, and no one looks twice.
Then again, I live on a fucking base. Everyone here has a knife or zippo of some sort.
