zero tolerance

Student allowed to bring religious knife to class Interesting. A Pop Tart shaped like a gun will earn a suspension, but a blade is OK because religion.

Zero tolerance stupidity in our schools has reached new heights: http://www.nbc12.com/story/26319685/cops-summerville-high-school-student-arrested-after-writing-threatening-message-on-assignment#.U_TP-L15fAN.twitter And it's not even September yet. Keep up the good work!

Yet another example of zero tolerance idiocy directed at small children: Lesson for the day, kid: never bring yourself to the attention of the authorities as anything you say can and will be used against you...

For a number of years I've subscribed to Randy Cassingham's "This is True", which features all sorts of asinine behavior people indulge in. Most of the time it's funny stuff. However, increasingly, he has featured stories of outrageous actions on the part of school administrators in the pursuit...

References to this case have popped up here and there on JREF, but I think it warrants a closer look and a dedicated thread. This 18-y-o kid in Texas made a sick joke on Facebook about shooting up a school. Somebody in Canada reported it to the cops in Texas, who arrested him and held him in...

As I've come to learn, many states are requiring school districts to adopt and anti bullying laws. It's pretty interesting to see how far we've come from the handwaiving, kids will be kids policy. The process in this district is a zero tolerance policy. The victim must address the complaint with...

Is zero tolerance a conservative or liberal idea?