Zero Tolerance Policy

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Visit http://www.usatoday.com/educate/ednews3.htm which discusses zero tolerance and answer the following questions:

1. If zero tolerance policies are not implemented how can schools make parents and students realize they are serious in curbing violence?

Answer:
In all honesty, not utilizing the zero tolerance policy would be a poor choice, mainly because as we all know without rules and regulations we would have chaos.
A better options instead of eliminating policy, my suggestion would be to reevaluate the procedure and possibly adopting a new name to replace the “zero” that will allow school administrators to exercise good judgment. This will also allow grey areas where common sense has to be enforced to help keep the school safe, …show more content…

As far as the grade school age group should be more of an importance on teaching the kids right from wrong versus the older age group are more independent and they should already know the consequences for their actions. In regards to how to the younger age group they should first evaluate the situation at hand and figure out if this was a poor judgment on the parents end or the child’s. For example going back to the link attached to the instruction in post; the young girls with the knife in her lunchbox her mom packed her so she can cut up her apple. The girl immediately went and turned it into the teacher. The teacher clearly told the girl she did the right thing. Next thing the little girl knows is she is being expelled for something she had no control over. After researching several sites containing very valuable insight on how to handle cases such what we read on the supplied link. I would suggest the school board comes together to create and implement a tier system of consequences based on the recurrence of the situation in regard to the grade school category. The older students should be held responsible for the poor choices they make, however each case should be evaluate and punished accurately according to the crime. Another suggestion that comes to mind is schools should incorporate a program for students working against violence. This will give students the opportunity to be able to get together with their peers to discuss the severity and consequences for poor judgment. Now a day’s more kids are bring pushed aside and having to learn most of this on their own. Parents are so busy with a variety of things ranging from single parent homes trying to do what they can to make ends meet to parents who are selfish and only care about themselves. Teenagers are out there doing things for attention even if it is for the negative attention.

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