Zero Tolerance In School

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Lucinda Griffin Zero Tolerance The zero tolerance policy was put in place to help keep students and their schools safer. This policy is causing problems with students. The policy is here to keep unsafe objects and violence out of school, to help keep everyone safe from harm, and bullying. The zero tolerance policy has become unfair to the students and teachers. The zero tolerance policy has a need to be revised. This policy is causing good kids to be kicked out of school, and they are getting into trouble with the law. Minor offenses are being treated with unfair solutions. The zero tolerance policy has become imbalanced to students, teachers even some parents. Students are being kicked out of school, young and older, some are facing…show more content…
It is good that we have a policy in place to help prevent violence in schools and keep people safe from harm. Students that have minor offenses should not result in severe punishments. This is why the zero tolerance policy needs to be fixed. (Hentoff, 2011) An honor-roll student got expelled from school because she possessed a nail clipper on her while she was in school. A third grader in a Christian school got expelled due to her grandmother sending her a birthday cake with a knife for cutting it, to school. Student that innocently bring things to school, are getting suspended, because the school administration finds it as an object that will hurt others. (Foster, 2000) Most of these kids that are getting into trouble are good kids. There does need to be a policy in place to help prevent violence in schools, however the zero tolerance policy is not helping students. The policy that is in place to keep the students and teachers safe at schools needs to be fixed, so that people are not being wrong fully expelled, and wrong fully accused of something. Kids make mistakes, and it is ok to be punished for a crime, but to what extent is okay? This policy is a good thing, it is good to try to keep everyone safe. We need to change the extent of punishment these students face when committing a very minor…show more content…
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