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When "Zero-Tolerance" Makes "Zero-Sense"
Posted on June 14, 2013
We've been reporting very regularly on ridiculous cases involving overzealous school officials misinterpreting and wrongly enforcing "zero-tolerance" rules In March, we reported on an outrageous case of a seven-year-old Baltimore, Md. student who, according to a March 2, Daily Callerarticle, was suspended for two days for the nefarious act of shaping a breakfast pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun. Yes, a breakfast pastry.According to the young student, he was eating the strawberry pastry during snack time and was biting off pieces in an attempt to shape it into a mountain. Apparently, the teacher thought the student's handiwork instead looked like a gun, and escorted him to the principal's office for prompt disciplinary action.
In accordance with USACarry the rest of the story is here.
Posted on June 14, 2013
We've been reporting very regularly on ridiculous cases involving overzealous school officials misinterpreting and wrongly enforcing "zero-tolerance" rules In March, we reported on an outrageous case of a seven-year-old Baltimore, Md. student who, according to a March 2, Daily Callerarticle, was suspended for two days for the nefarious act of shaping a breakfast pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun. Yes, a breakfast pastry.According to the young student, he was eating the strawberry pastry during snack time and was biting off pieces in an attempt to shape it into a mountain. Apparently, the teacher thought the student's handiwork instead looked like a gun, and escorted him to the principal's office for prompt disciplinary action.
In accordance with USACarry the rest of the story is here.