Zero Tolerance is a f***ing joke. The only school I went to with a serious crime problem spent more time figuring out who wrote "penis" on the bathroom wall than actually enforcing this stuff. I went to elementary school before this crap became the feel-good solution du jour, but I've got a few hilariously stupid stories of my own from high-school:
1. Getting bitched out by the SRO for having in my possession a drawing of a Barret M82 sniper rifle (for those of you who don't know your guns, this bad-boy costs $15k assuming you can even find one, not something a kid could afford) given to me by one of the cadets in my JROTC company. Nothing happened, I still have said drawing hanging prominently in my dorm.
2. Called down to SRO's office for "looking up weapons" on GlobalSecurity.org (yeah I was a military nerd in HS). What I had actually looked up was the specs on a tank. He gives me some BS, I question how the hell a high school student is supposed to buy or build a tank, he's humiliated and forced to let me back to class.
Zero-Tolerance needs to go 10 years ago. What ever happened to common sense and discretion?
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“There are still serious threats every day in schools,” Dr. Ewing said, adding that giving school officials discretion holds the potential for discrimination and requires the kind of threat assessments that only law enforcement is equipped to make.
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So I'm not longer "equipped" to determine if a kid with a book of rifle drawings is a threat to myself, himself or others? God this article makes me weep for humanity.
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