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A couple of days ago, we ran a story in the Advocate about rival girl gangs in Calhoun County. Police arrested members of one of the gangs, a mother and grandmother when things escalated.
A reader posted a comment to that story about zero tolerance at schools, and how maybe zero tolerance has hampered educators in their dealings with some students.
That reader's post was interesting and well thought out. Though I'm not sure I agree with it, it did get me thinking about zero tolerance.
I was working at a newspaper in Colorado when the Columbine shootings happened. Eric Harris and his sissy friend Dylan Klebold gunned down 12 students and one teacher and wounded 22 others before killing themselves. Cowards.
Anyway, a lot of the current zero tolerance policies were born out of the Columbine shootings.
Does it always work. No, but nothing's 100 percent. A few years back, a newspaper I worked at told the story of a young kid who got expelled because he had a plastic knife in his...
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