For Joe Buck & Kirk who will never read it :(
“We end up punishing honor students to send a message to bad kids. But the data indicate that the bad kids are not getting the message.” ~ Professor Russell Skiba
What we are witnessing, thanks in large part to zero tolerance policies that were intended to make schools safer by discouraging the use of actual drugs and weapons by students, is the inhumane treatment of young people and the criminalization of childish behavior."
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I like the article. I agree that all of those instances were ridiculous. I would be interested to see more evidence backing up his claim that they don't work, although that would be difficult to prove either way. Interesting insight in the last paragraph
This is perhaps one of the dumbest things that I have heard. What ever happened to common sense? It just makes me sad to read things like this.
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