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When it comes to schools, a zero tolerance policy is equivalent to zero common sense. Since when has it been a crime to use an inhaler or give someone aspirin at school? Wouldn’t it make sense to take a knife away from your friend if she seemed suicidal…and not tell the school administration because you know the resulting publicity would really push her over the edge? One young man thought it made sense and did exactly that. The school suspended him for 4 months and the resulting publicity pushed the girl to actually attempt suicide.

Zero tolerance is laziness, pure and simple. Some school systems don’t want to have to use their minds, so everything gets thrown into the same package deal. Hello, McFly? This might all be well intended, but suspensions for aspirin in ridiculous. Anything firing in the little grey cells, eh?