[BitWielder1]

I never understood why "Zero Tolerance" implies automatic Draconian punishments for every little thing.
Even under the auspices of "Zero Tolerance" we should still be able to exact a measured and appropriate response to an infraction.
Verbal warning, note to parents, suspension or call police, as appropriate for each individual case. Age appropriate too.
You don't call the cops and suspend a 7-year old boy for kissing a girl.
Liberals have very poor sense of proportion. That's where it failed.
The purpose of discipline is to teach the kids proper behavior, not to make them live in constant fear.
That's totalitarianism.
Maybe the real purpose is to get kids used to exactly that.

[BitWielder1]

One more thing, I strongly dislike Zero Tolerance because flies in the face of justice.
We need proportionality and there must be some kind of minimum threshold of provocation, otherwise a single molecule of cocaine could in theory get you busted for possession.
That mindset would put us all at risk anytime. Can you say Police State?

[River_Wrangler]

My Grandson was suspended and issued a warrent because a classmate said he assaulted him. I had to pay his bond ($500) pay for a lawyer ($500) and he lost 5 days of school. He was not in town the day the incedent was said to happen. It seems that the boy that acused him has made the same complaint about many other children with the same results. Oh well, the court said. They dismissed the complaint and said no harm no foul. I am just out the money, time and his 5 days of suspention.

I might spendanother $1000.00 to see my Grandson realy punch him out. That seems the only way to teach him a leason.

[Mr. Quarterpanel]

Please remember that this “Liberal” policy was enacted by a “Conservative” State legislation. The same thing happened here in FL. The Republican legislature and Republican Governor made this law.

I never understood how anyone could have thought that this was a good idea.