Why I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance policies
From time-to-time, I have documented asinine decisions made by school administrators based on their slave-like adherance to zero tolerance policies. My problem with zero tolerance policies is that they force otherwise intelligent human beings to completely suspend logic and common sense. Terry Frank has a recent example of zero tolerance idiocy that happened right here in Tennessee.
There were a lot of us that warned people about what would, not could happen when they started shoving these things down our throats.
In the area where I was living it really took off after the Columbine High School tragedy. Most of us that were in fact involved were, and to a degree still are, under a court gag order. So anything that we had to say had to be said as rhetorical.
It is difficult to defend what you believe when the equivalent of stripping your Second Amendment rights comes to your free speech rights.
Zero tolerance equals zero intelligence.
patricksperry
November 18, 2008 at 11:34 AM