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This is very common in American schools. At some point it just got easier to implement zero-tolerance policies than to deal with the actual issues.
by kayodelycaon 6y ago
This is very common in American schools. At some point it just got easier to implement zero-tolerance policies than to deal with the actual issues.
- gchamonlive 6y agoI would say it has always been like this and now we are waking up to this fact. Actually dealing with issues would require a flexibility that would not go well with the rigidity of the educational system
- ryneandal 6y agoIt's been this way since at least 2003. My parents taught at a school for students expelled from their home-zoned schools, and some of the reasons were incredibly laughable. Zero-tolerance discipline is a plague on our society (mandatory minimums in sentencing is another example).
- kayodelycaon 6y agoIt started around 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_tolerance_(schools)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_tolerance_(schools)#Histo...