Articles like this really get my blood boiling. I have 5 kids, and I just know one day I’m going to run up against one of these idiotic zero tolerance rules. Zero Tolerance leave no room for understanding the situational details, and you can’t make rules for every possible situation that can come up. I think part of the problem may be that teaching is such a financially unrewarding profession that you get one of two kinds: 1. The dedicated teacher who does it because they love it, and 2: the teacher who does it because they can’t do anything else (there a reason for that saying “those who can, do, those who can’t teach”). The type 2 teacher vastly outnumbers the type 1 teacher, so it would appear they are not trusted to be able to use good judgment when it comes to these zero tolerance rules. I don’t know about you, but I think that they really couldn’t do any worse than the zero tolerance rules are doing.
Home Schooling and private school is one solution