Zero Tolerance. It took them long enough to figure this out.

DENVER - On campuses around Colorado, there's something being built thanks to a law passed last spring. It requires school districts to build new disciplines policies turning away from practices of 'zero tolerance.'

"There have been problems with 'zero tolerance' and kids have been swept up. Parents have been swept up," said Sen. Linda Newell (D) Littleton. "The teachers have been swept into really being too restricted when it came to school disciplines."

Newell sponsored the bill which became law that allows schools to develop other options other than a mandatory suspension or expulsion after a student violates weapons policies.


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I have been bitching about this for quite a while.

Schools prefer zero tolerance because they don't have to make judgements and can't be accused of favortism or profiling. I predict ZT will continue.

I hope not...zero tolerance needs to be replaced with common sense and equal justice.

FredHayek wrote: Schools prefer zero tolerance because they don't have to make judgements and can't be accused of favortism or profiling. I predict ZT will continue.

It is called laziness.

Are you suggesting that School Principals and Teachers should be allowed to apply common sense instead of complying with zero tolerance policies? What's next? Kids will be allowed to pick and choose the clothes they wear to school or even choose what they want to eat for lunch? Outrageous!

Surely we all realize that County, State, and Federal Gubments are there to protect us from ourselves, why waste everyone's time questioning the Gubment and School Boards?

Hey, you know. 6 year olds should be expelled for accidentally bringing a butter knife to school. That is so reasonable. I went through the public school system with my kids. I can't believe some of the stupid things I have seen and the dumb conversations I have had. I have seen some good teachers as well. But the no tolerance for kids makes no sense.

otisptoadwater wrote: Are you suggesting that School Principals and Teachers should be allowed to apply common sense instead of complying with zero tolerance policies? What's next? Kids will be allowed to pick and choose the clothes they wear to school or even choose what they want to eat for lunch.

Yes

I'm with you all the way CG. Any application of a Zero Tolerance should be very limited; No smoking or open flames near a refueling operation (common sense applies). School Administration has to have the leeway to judge each instance as it occurred instead of falling back on the policy of the day. An 8 year old that tells his/her teacher they have a steak knife in their lunch sack so they can eat their lunch is 180 degrees from a kid that brings the same knife to school to stab another kid and/or any other target of opportunity.

archer wrote:

otisptoadwater wrote: Are you suggesting that School Principals and Teachers should be allowed to apply common sense instead of complying with zero tolerance policies? What's next? Kids will be allowed to pick and choose the clothes they wear to school or even choose what they want to eat for lunch.

Yes

One thing we can agree on. Never mind that we are paying school administrators to watch over the children and correct them when they do something wrong, handcuffing them with zero tolerance policies is ignorant, wrong, and counter productive.

Wow, a thread we all agree on :thumbsup: