I do think that the zero tolerance stuff needs to go. When our son entered middle school (he’s 34) I remember the parents’ meeting where the principal said that every three minutes these kids think of sex and/or punching the kid next to him/her. Then he laughed. In other words, he had common sense. Same kid cut himself in art on an exacto knife and you would have thought it was an international crisis. He was not treated for the cut, he was isolated by the nurse who literally threw a bandaid at him and told him to wash it and bind it himself. I’m surprised that they didn’t call the CDC and the EPA. Later our daughter was suspended for having a pseudophed that I had given her in her pocket. She and some friends were being searched for supposed possession of drugs. I think that it all started going downhill around then.
“I do think that the zero tolerance stuff needs to go. When our son entered middle school (he’s 34) I remember the parents’ meeting where the principal said that every three minutes these kids think of sex and/or punching the kid next to him/her. Then he laughed. In other words, he had common sense. Same kid cut himself in art on an exacto knife and you would have thought it was an international crisis. He was not treated for the cut, he was isolated by the nurse who literally threw a bandaid at him and told him to wash it and bind it himself. I’m surprised that they didn’t call the CDC and the EPA. Later our daughter was suspended for having a pseudophed that I had given her in her pocket. She and some friends were being searched for supposed possession of drugs. I think that it all started going downhill around then.”
Holder is not making the point about removing zero tolerance, but for removing zero tolerance only for minorities.
It is a racism attempt at its core, not a disciplinary one.
Big diff
You mean Sudafed?