Zero Tolerance Policies in School Make Zero Sense

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  • ZERO TOLERANCE policies are piss poor solutions to fundamental social problems.

    The first and foremost being the severe lack of real parental oversight (and really, parenting of any sort) over most modern youth.

    So, in lieu of good parenting, we are reduced to absurd policies, like expelling someone for bringing a kitchen utensil to school.

    Btw. this is very similar to some of the more extreme calls for "gun control" - as if the primary problem in the criminal use of a weapon is the utensil!

  • Zero tolerance is totally stupid i mean you can find and use weapons anywhere in the school like books,pencils,and even you can use YOUR BODY PARTS TO HARM SOMEONE. Get suspend over drawing guns and knifes and playing cops and robbers thats zero common sense i mean kids see guns everywhere even in cartoons. Also Tools can be weapons unless what it's purpose to do

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  • lmao i got suspended 4 bring a metal spoon 4 my cereal .

  • "Syrup tolerance policy." I love the voice recognition software!

  • Our well meaning, good intentions are causing an entire generation of children to be labeled CRIMINALS. Way to go!!!

  • @KosmicCitizen I disagree. Clearly, this 4 year old is a terrorist and must be sent to Guantanamo bay and tortured immediately non-stop 24/7/365 to help American democracy and freedom. Hang on a minute ...isn't that what psychopaths and sadists do?...Hmm this must mean we have psychotic criminals and sadists in charge of our government and weak gutless ignorant American people who do nothing but eat, reproduce and eliminate.

  • @nekomishachan America was founded by Jesus Christ when he arrived on the Mayflower in 1620.

  • @HomleandSecurity Are you serious?

  • Detention for 6 year olds? You gotta be outa your mind. Reform school for 6 year olds? You gotta be F*CKIN CRAZY!

  • I'm with Jayar. Why do we think we need to punish in order to get the point across in the situation of the knife? We aren't just a bunch of pavlovian dogs here.

  • wow american schools are way stricter than ausie ones

  • 45 days in reform school and he'll really know how to use a knife. All kinds of knives.

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