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In Seattle they won't even expel students committing violent crimes in schools. There's no punishment available for any behavior. https://www.seattletimes.com/

by coryrc 2y ago

In Seattle they won't even expel students committing violent crimes in schools. There's no punishment available for any behavior. https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/student-discipline-are-schools-equipped-to-handle-behavioral-extremes/ https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/student-discipline-are-... If someone brandished a knife at my workplace they would be immediately fired, never to return. At SPS that's just a stern talkin' to.

thfuran 2y ago
That's weird. I've mostly heard about the opposite at schools, like someone getting reamed for bringing cake and a plastic knife to cut it. But I guess that was probably over a decade ago. Has 'zero tolerance' so thoroughly reversed?