Schools' zero tolerance policies short on common sense News for Dallas, Texas Dallas Morning News Columnist James Ragland Dallas-Fort Worth News:
"I've never been a fan of so-called zero tolerance policies in our nation's schools.
In my book, the practical translation of these theoretically pure postulations often leads to a much more intolerable reality – zero thinking.
Examples are easy to find, such as the recent case of the Delaware first-grader who took his camping knife to school.
Little Zachary, at the ripe age of 6, soon learned a hard and bitter lesson from zero-thinking school officials who initially subjected him to 45 days in an alternative school for troublemakers.
Innocently enough, Zachary was going to use the combo spoon/fork/knife camping tool to eat his lunch. Can't you just imagine how excited the fresh-faced Cub Scout must've been to show it off?"
"I've never been a fan of so-called zero tolerance policies in our nation's schools.
In my book, the practical translation of these theoretically pure postulations often leads to a much more intolerable reality – zero thinking.
Examples are easy to find, such as the recent case of the Delaware first-grader who took his camping knife to school.
Little Zachary, at the ripe age of 6, soon learned a hard and bitter lesson from zero-thinking school officials who initially subjected him to 45 days in an alternative school for troublemakers.
Innocently enough, Zachary was going to use the combo spoon/fork/knife camping tool to eat his lunch. Can't you just imagine how excited the fresh-faced Cub Scout must've been to show it off?"