Zero Tolerence Policy

- The concept of zero tolerance means that there are no exceptions to the rule that it is applied on (example: If a student gets caught with a firearm, no matter the reason, they are automatically expelled for a year.)

- There is a lot of confusion about the definition of zero tolerance.

- Zero tolerance started in 1990 when Congress passed the Gun-Free Schools Act (mandates a one-year expulsion for any student caught with a firearm at school).

- It was followed by many other no-nonsense punishments all over the country.

- The law also directs states to allow school officials to modify the terms of expulsion “on a case-by-case basis”.

- States can limit local decision making by adapting more prescriptive laws.

- There is no clear line drawn in how local school leaders can apply zero tolerance.

- In Atlanta, a public school student who was charged with criminal weapons possession after she brought African tribal knives to school for a project.

- In Canton, Ohio, a six-year-old boy was suspended from school for sexual harassment after he jumped from the tub where he was bathing and waved out the window to a school bus that was picking up his sister.

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