“Zero tolerance” is a vile destruction of the educational process that has severely damaged millions of students who are crushed by it, and millions of teachers administrators that enforce it. It’s purpose is to kill morality and rational thought, and replace them with unaccountable decrees from a faceless wall of rules and totally indemnified, “untouchable” teachers and administrators who have gone mad with power.
The abdication of teaching responsiblity and denial of consideration of mitigating factors required by due process called “zero tolerance” is one of the greatest scourges ever inflicted upon a population. It is enforcement training of nothing less than the programming of mindless obedience to political correctness totalitarianism, and has transformed teachers into vicious, punishing hypocrites.
Talk to a public school teacher lately you haven’t seen in awhile? You’re in for a treat.Their arrogance has been so bloated by their wielding of this punative, sadistic, completely protected tyranny they actually strut, and refuse to respond to critical discussions even with an adult. Why? Because they don’t have to justify themselves anymore... and they’re drunk on the power.
I have always believed “zero tolerance” could be struck down as an acceptable school policy on a number of grounds, with a big enough federal legal effort. It contrasts wholly with every purpose of education - it’s defenses are mere sound clips, and the curriculum itself even violates it. For example, these are the people who are also teaching that the rule of law regarding immigration, for example, should be justifiably broken - and that is far from the only “zero tolerance” hypocrisy that could be used against them and their openly leftist political agenda.
The whole thing makes me sick like few other subjects. Public school teachers and administrators are wildly out of control - they are running true gulags in America, and in raping the hearts and minds of the students, they’ve lost their own, all while screaming that they have the moral high ground. They’re hideous, and besides the district, they themselves should be personally sued into the ground for their abuses.
You've just neatly defined the raison d'etre of compulsory government schooling. Have a Guinness!
Yes, they’re straining at gnats while swallowing camels. The REAL damage done in the classroom— freewheeling sex ed, politicized curriculum, expunging of God and related symbols, bullying feral kids raised by idiot parents—is gleefully accepted. But if a limp-wristed bureaucrat can kill two all-American symbols with one stone, e.g., an Eagle Scout AND a pointed object, then by all means, they can’t allow THAT in their precious school.