Zero Tolerance Policy In School

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What would be your reaction to seeing your kid in court due to a minor offense that happened in school. Today students are facing problems graduating because of the Zero Tolerance Policy has the dropping out and ending up on the streets or in jail. These kids are mostly the ones that have gotten suspended before but that doesn't mean that they are that bad. What good does it do for us to get rid of their education and basically kick them to curb or throw them in juvie or jail. Really what good does that do us? Zero Tolerance Policies put stress on students to graduate and to focus in school. What is a Zero Tolerance Policy? A Zero Tolerance Policy is a policy in schools punishing any infraction of a rule regardless of accidental mistakes, ignorance or extenuating circumstances. Zero Tolerance Policies were put in the late 1900’s to lower the violence in schools and help kids get focused on schools. Though it hasn't always had a positive effect in some situations. Students are now stressing over what to do or say in school because they think they are going to get expelled or suspended from school.…show more content…
The zero tolerance policy basically takes away all warnings that people usually would have gotten. “Creating a policy is the easy part. Putting teeth in it and managing problems-- when they occur-- is the challenge explains David Ulrich a Business Professor at the University of Michigan”.(Greengard) The policy had success “by the early 1990s, schools, professional sports leagues and voters began expressing their discontent with crime, drugs and other problems”(Greenband). Zero tolerance can mean different things to different people. By that I mean people make their policy into what they believe it means. That basically how a zero tolerance policy

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