The zero tolerance idiocy

[draco664]

FTFA

No, this is not an April Fool’s Day joke. A six-year-old boy in Virginia has been suspended from school for … crying.

Yup. A six year old kid crying in class was considered disruptive, so he's suspended.

I'm beginning to think that administrators are adopting zero tolerance policies not because they are stupid, but because they are lazy. They make these decisions that impact real people and their future all because they don't want to deal with the paperwork in the first place.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Screw paperwork. The administrators don't even want to have to think.

I was a lot more disruptive when my eye got whacked with a snowball and heavy scratched. Betcha that would've gotten me expelled nowadays.

[Greenday]

When my sister was in high school, her then boyfriend hit her softly with a snowball. He got suspended for a week.

[insertNameHere]

WOW, maybe I could see this if it was a Highschool drama queen who was well known for throwing hissy fits, but a child who just entered school..... little kids cry, yes it is annoying but all kids do it at some point, even adults. WTF.

I really think the morons who made the policy AND those who enforce it need their heads removed from there asses if they want to keep their jobs.

[DrFaroohk]

I don't see how someone can A) make it through college and obtain a high level, decision making position in a school and B) be dumb enough to fall for this shit.

it just doesn't compute. I know college != smarts but still. Genuinely stupid people don't go to college.

I agree that laziness is a good answer. I think it comes down to having a certain quota to fill on certain issues. If they never suspend a disruptive kid, no one thinks "Hey, they must be doing well", it's "Hey, they're overlooking a lot of shit." So they pick one out at random who they think it will be the smallest pain in the ass to deal with.

Social workers are the same way. I rarely ever see someone lose their kids who deserves it.

[Andara Bledin]

it just doesn't compute. I know college != smarts but still. Genuinely stupid people don't go to college.

Oh, yes they do. Usually on their parent's dime, and usually only getting in because someone in their family was an alumnus and the college is chasing that donation money.

^-.-^

[AdminAssistant]

And that's how George W. Bush got into Yale.

I have some great students, but every year I always get a few that are just....I mean, how did they pass 6th grade? Ugh. Even some of my good, decently bright students are missing quite a bit of common sense, which I try to chalk up to being 19-ish.

[Greenday]

We had plenty of people who didn't know the map of the US (Where all the states are). I learned that in the 4th grade. It's not even a challenge.

Being smart isn't a requirement for college. You can substitute being related to an alumni or having money for being smart.

[Eisa]

What the effing shit.

I guess if I'd still been in k-12 when my dog had to be put down, I would have been suspended. I cried so much, my eyelid was raw.

[Oh--I've had 4 scratches on my cornea before, Irving...it's annoying as all hell. Like something is stuck in your eye, only nothing's there. I hate that. ]

[insertNameHere]

We had plenty of people who didn't know the map of the US (Where all the states. I learned that in the 4th grade. It's not even a challenge.

Being smart isn't a requirement for college. You can substitute being related to an alumni or having money for being smart.

Well I used to know, really don't anymore because I tend to forget things I don't use often. That said I still have a general idea of waht states are where, but some of the things they teach really are pointless memorization. Also have to consider the amount of knowledge that is no available with the internet on demand, compared to the old way of having encyclopedias at home or going to library.

[Greenday]

Well I used to know, really don't anymore because I tend to forget things I don't use often. That said I still have a general idea of waht states are where, but some of the things they teach really are pointless memorization. Also have to consider the amount of knowledge that is no available with the internet on demand, compared to the old way of having encyclopedias at home or going to library.

Most people got the location of Philly wrong. This is a school 45 minutes from Philly. The extreme majority of people at my college lived within 15-30 minutes from the school. That's pathetic. I mean, it's not even a hard task to do compared to other things you are stuck learning in college.