More schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline stand
Posted By The Editors | June 3rd, 2011 | Category: Education | No Comments »
Print This PostZero-tolerance rules, once hailed as the panacea to an explosion of serious student misbehavior in schools, are now recognized more and more as part of the problem, not the solution and are being significantly modified or replaced altogether by policies that are “more child-centered,” according to a news article in theWashington Post.
“The tide is beginning to turn,” Matt Cregor, assistant counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, told a Post reporter, “but we have a very long way to go to see these reforms realized for all districts across the country.”
Cregor and other observers say that zero-tolerance policies – which mandate that school officials respond