Odious District Expels Teen Girl For Carrying Grandpa's Pocketknife
"I'm disgusted."
The kid was charged with disorderly conduct.
If there's any good news on this front, it's that the absurdity of many of these stories has prompted something of a backlash.
Zero tolerance policies are bad, willy-nilly expulsions are bad, abjectly racial policies are bad-but federal education mandates are also (often) bad.
School policies prohibit "lookalike weapons" as well as real ones, even though no one was ever shot to death by a pastry.
Making a giant octopus is way more enlightening than taking the SAT or Sociology 101.
Returned to school 21 days later after several local news reports, 21 other suspensions of students
Zero tolerance strikes again
Suspended for honest mistakes and good faith efforts
No policy change though
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