Zero Tolerance, Reconsidered - NYTimes.comSchools across the country are rethinking “zero tolerance” discipline policies under which children have been suspended, even arrested, for minor offenses like cursing, getting into shoving matches and other garden-variety misbehavior that in years past would have been resolved with detention or meetings with a child’s parents.
These policies date back to 1994, when Congress required states receiving federal education money to expel students for bringing guns onto school property.
States and local governments broadened and distorted this mandate to expel children for minor infractions.
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