skahthic wrote:
There's a difference between friends hugging in a platonic manner and people hugging in a sexual way. Zero tolerance policies are often inhumane because they don't discriminate between the real threats and the non-threats. One girl was expelled from a school here because she had a kitchen knife in her car on campus--- she had been moving and some of the utensils were still in her car. A kitchen knife used to EAT with, and it never left her car, even. But because of zero tolerance, she was treated to the same punishment as a kid who brings a weapon to school with the intention of hurting them.
If, say, one girl loses someone close to her ( a death) and her friend hugs her to console her, should she be punished the same as 2 teens hugging and kissing? Zero tolerance laws are dumb.
One girl in Katy, Texas (a suburb of Houston) was disciplined for bringing a pencil sharpener to class. The said sharpener resembled a knife and is the type of pencil sharpener used in Korea, where the student was originally from.
It is getting weird. I witnessed a catfight between two girls when I was in high school, and one of the girls was pregnant. Yet people are worried more about gum being stuck on desks.
Tim
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