No Tolerance Nonsense

      You will hear the term "zero tolerance" everywhere you go in America. This is a bad policy based on conforming the individual to the collective mindset. The goal is for the common good, not the individual. Most schools in America have embraced this policy in cases involving drugs, fighting, cheating and especially guns. In a country that is based on the individual, a policy like "zero tolerance" has no place. It has no place anywhere and especially not America. America was based on individual freedom, not the common good. According to zero tolerance policies, we are supposed to teach our kids not to defend themselves. No matter what someone does or says to you, you are not allowed to fight back physically or verbally. Is this not the wrong message to be sending our kids? You can not treat every situation the same. This has never been so prevalent than today with the anti gun influence of the misguided public. Most schools across the country have adopted a zero tolerance policy with guns. Kids are now being suspended and even expelled from schools for bringing army men to school because they have a half inch plastic gun attached to them.

 Last spring, an 8-year-old Maryland boy got suspended from school for gnawing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun.

Last fall an eight-year-old child has been suspended from a Florida elementary school for forming his hand into a gun shape. These are knee jerk overreactions by education officials.

You can no longer make your hand into the shape of a gun because the school will see it as a real threat.  Are we really going to start ruining our children's academic careers because they play cops and robbers? If so, we are truly a sick society. Perhaps it would better suit everyone if we actually kept the "bad" kids in school instead of kicking them out, where they will no doubt get embraced by the street life. Fortunately, some schools are now discovering that "zero tolerance" and other policies that push kids out of school and toward the justice system are ineffective and unfair. Broward County, Florida is among the districts to reject zero tolerance. choosing to keep law breaking students in school, away from trouble on the streets, and offering them counseling and other assistance aimed at changing behavior.-BDB (Google Images)

Sources-
http://www.jlc.org/blog/zero-tolerance-policies-good-bad-and-ugly

http://www.infowars.com/8-year-old-suspended-from-school-for-forming-gun-shape-with-his-hand/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boy-suspended-gun-shaped-pop-tart-lifetime-nra-membership-article-1.1359918