zero tolerance policies

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...

Link. We encourage experimentation, within tightly drawn boundaries. Cross those boundaries, regardless how noble your cause, and you shall feel the full weight of the law. Honestly, the girl's gotta understand that she screwed up and she feels horrible for it. Nobody was hurt. What is the...

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=12047295 So in a nutshell... another student offers the girl a prescription drug. She holds a pill in her hand, then gives it back and says no. That equals "drug possession."

Knife At Lunch Gets 10-Year-Old Girl Arrested At School So, we had her arrested!!! Teachers that are unable to deal with a 10 year old girl cutting her meat with a knife without calling the Police should not be teaching.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0929evschoolsuit29.html There can be long-term risks, too, if blood sugar gets too high or low, Lagman added.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/08/AR2005080801148.html Of course, MADD and the police are not happy about this trend. A Virginia couple was sentenced to 8 years in jail (reduced to 8 months) for such a party. The police have decided to raid parties like this...

Another drug war attack on common sense: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2985592 Sudafed can be used to make meth and is already banned in Oklahoma. My favorite quote is: I am sure most allergy sufferers would agree. CBL

Apparently some schools are not letting kids carry around their asthma inhalers in favour of a "zero tolerance" drug policy. What kind of special idiocy is this? Do we let kids die so that administrators don't have to think about what drugs to allow in school and what drugs to disallow? Here...

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/US/GMA031004Zero_tolerance_dresscode.html Ah, for the good old days, when we used to get hit with a board for such offenses. Yeah...that's the "simpler time" people wax nostalgic about.