A seven year old boy in Broward County, FL has been expelled from school for two years for having a toy gun in his backpack.
A toy. Not a firearm.
Is it true that when one is hired to be a school administrator, the very first thing that they do is open up one's skull and scoop out a good percentage of one's brains?
It sure seems that way to me. For if they are going to have a "zero tolerance policy", which is "if X happens, then we do Y", without any thought whatsoever, then why can't they just hire trained rodents to do the job and save all of those salary and pension costs?
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The unfortunate truth with regard to these actions is that the school administrators have little choice. When a School Board adopts zero tolerance (ZT) policies, the local administrators are compelled to do such stupid things.
I'm aware of a similar situation involving an honor roll senior and star athlete in a small community. The lad had assisted his grandmother over a weekend in disposing of some items formerly owned by his late grandfather. One of the boxes contained trophies the old gentleman had won at shooting competitions. One had broken and a smaller than 3" plastic shotgun fell out and was left in the bed of the boy's pickup. The next day a school resource officer spotted it, the boy was dragged out of class and suspended, preventing him from graduating.
There is no thought put into ZT policies, and no thinking allowed.
I've got proof in my own life with that.
Five little seventh graders were found guilty of pouring vodka (stolen from a parent's house) into their year-end punch and sent to drug school with high school drug users.
No shit.
I said a few things at our conference to the principal and teacher in charge that made the teacher cry and run out of the room, and the principal tell me I was an awful parent.
After hearing the load that they had no choice, I asked the only question a sane person would:
Why do you think you are a manager?
Not to make actual decisions that benefit the children?
They were speechless.
And changed the policy the next year.
S
The reason zero tolerance policies (or, "zero thinking" policies as I like to call them) is that too many administrators have zero judgment.
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