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Zero Tolerance Policy - School Papers

Zero Tolerance Policy

In all schools there are disciplinary actions that have to be followed to created a safe learning and classroom environment for the children. The zero tolerance policy is the most widely used and controversial that has come into effect. Zero tolerance means that when a student does something wrong there will be no mercy. There is no room for anyone to squeeze through no matter how small the issue may seem to be. Every case is treated the same no matter what age group or individual qualities of the student. Obviously this has both good and bad aspects of it.
Zero tolerance seems very good in the broad picture. Sending a child to school, you know that he or she will be protected, ...

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has a very negative side. “Schools across the United States have employed an unforgiving system of discipline in which children and youth are punished for punishment's sake. This disciplinary policy often disrupts the trust between students and adults in a school” (Browne-Dianis, 2012). This is exemplified by the story of the knife in a lunch box. A ten-year-old girl was eating lunch when she saw a small knife to cut her apple with that he mother had packed. Realizing that it might break the zero tolerance policy at her school she handed it into the teacher, who had said she did the right thing. The little girl was later expelled for it. Obviously the little girl was not trying to cut anyone in school and the mother did not put it in her lunch box with that intention either. This has to do with common sense in the school system. Having a small knife to cut an apple should never result in the expulsion of a ten-year-old girl.
The number of students being expelled has been ...

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Added: 3/27/2014 05:37:25 AM
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