I found this while looking for something completly different. An interesting read when you have the time.
http://www.indiana.edu/~safeschl/ztze.pdf
http://www.indiana.edu/~safeschl/ztze.pdf
Zero Tolerance is brought to you by those with Zero Common-Sense, and Zero Judgment. I.E. your typical progressive.
Actually, it is usually supported by conservatives as a "get tough" measure in schools, without really giving it much thought.
And back beyond the dawn of time, I carried a M14 while drilling with JROTCWe were discussing zero tolerance yesterday morning. There was a photo in the Star showing a High School drill team, flag team, whatever you call them around here. Anyway the girls were carrying fake wooden rifles. I know they are fake, so do you, however it seems rather hypocritical of the school systems to expel a kindergartener for having a 1" long plastic gun, or a 4th grader for pointing is finger "gun" at another student, ad nauseum and yet this same school system promotes gun toting majorettes! Pathetic and petty of me I know but if you make an acception to "zero tolerance", doesn't that now change the definition of "zero tolerance"?
And back beyond the dawn of time, I carried a M14 while drilling with JROTC
Not to mention the rifle range in the school basement.