Zero Sense
November, 2002
Zero-tolerance policies in schools have always been a joke. They lead to suspending students for using mouthwash (because it contains alcohol) or fingernail clippers (because they have tiny files), carrying asthma inhalers or leaving tools or kitchen knives in vehicles parked in the school lot. Randy Cassingham has been documenting--and we've been clipping--examples of such abuses for years in his column, "This Is True" (thisistrue.com). One reader, a mother in Los Angeles, sent him th...
