Zero Tolerance Policies: Are the Schools Becoming Police States?
What we are witnessing, thanks in large part to zero tolerance policies that were intended to make schools safer by discouraging the use of actual drugs and weapons by students, is the criminalization of childish behavior. In fact, as John Whitehead points out in this week's vodcast, things have gotten so bad that it doesn't take much at all to raise the ire of school officials.
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