| Village Idiot Join Date: May 2008 Location: Not In Sterling City Gender:  Posts: 610 Country:  Level up: 17%, 125 Points needed |  |  I Hate "Zero Tolerance" II "Zero tolerance" is the bastion of cowardly persons of authority who lack the cajones to use the discretion when addressing a problem.
True Examples of "Zero Tolerance" Running Amuck
Number One:
Four junior high girls and one junior high boy show up at a dance sponsored by another school. The four girls are plastered and disrupted the dance, the boy had 1/2 a beer and was well-behaved. The boy confesses that he had walked to the dance with the girls and that he had 1/2 a beer. Had he not confessed, there was no way the school could have taken any action.
The result: all five expelled because the principal would not use his discretion to mitigate the punishment for the boy. What a nice life lesson - you get punished for telling the truth.
Number Two:
19 year old boy has sex with his 16 year old girlfriend. Cops find them getting it on in the car. He's charged with statutory rape, and due to mandatory sentencing, he gets two years. The girl's parents knew about the relationship, and had no objections. The girl was mature and clearly could consent to the relationship.
Number Three:
High school girls brings a midol to school. When it is found, she's suspended for the rest of the school year.
Number Four:
Every day, a high school student is bullied by a schoolmate. The student has his ear thumped, and the bully says stuff to the boy such as "your mother is a slut". The student repeatedly asks the bully to refrain. Finally, the boy gets fed up and punches the bully in the nose, breaking his nose.
Absolutely NO consideration of the torment. Since it was not self-defense, the boy was expelled AND charged with assault. The jury, being much smarter than the school administration, found the student "not guilty" of assault, and the woman who was selected foreman of the jury told the court that "that boy needed a whipping."
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