Is ZERO tolerance a good thing?

random blog, little politics, little humor...lotta bull****

2008/4/29

@ 01:37 AM (4 months, 11 days ago)

After colombine and other such tragedys, a lot of areas have a Zero tolerance policy has been adopted. Is it a little too harsh?....You here stories like the kid expelled for having a steak knife in the back of his truck, the day after he was helping family out with a garage sale, and had "junk" in the back, or the girl expelled for having a nail file in her purse, or another girl who gave her buddy some tylenol at school, and got roasted for drug posession, or my favorite, a 2nd grader drew a stick man shooting a pistol, and the school had a cow and even called the police...where do you draw the line on this?

Girl expelled for accidentally having gun in car

advocate staff report

April 25, 2008 - 1:03 a.m.

PORT LAVACA – A 16-year-old girl who accidentally brought a gun to school grounds on Monday was expelled.

The Hope High School student, of Port Lavaca, drove her father’s pickup to the campus at 300 Alcoa Drive on Monday, Port Lavaca Chief of Police John Stewart said. Her father works for the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department.(OOPS!!!.....)

The student was unaware an unloaded pistol was in the vehicle, Calhoun County ISD Superintendent Larry Nichols said. No one was threatened by the weapon.

“This was incidental,” Nichols said. “It was not purposeful.”

A K-9 unit discovered the gun as part of a routine drill around 1:30 p.m., Nichols said. The student was removed from campus and expelled due to school policy..

“What she did was a violation of school policy, not a violation of state law,” Stewart said. “We researched it. There was no criminal violation. The school is handling the situation.”

Her parents were notified, Nichols said.

The school supervisor even admitted, the girls total duplicity...."but school policy sez......"......I realize that the rules are there for a reason, and for the kids and teachers safety.....but come on folks....this is fricken crazy.......but at what point does "I was just following orders" justify doing some assanine thing like this.....Any system that is so rigid that you cannot reveiw things on a case by case basis, is doomed to just plain piss people off.....riff