Texas' Council of State Government's Justice Center (can ANYBODY explain why this country needs crap like this?) has now admitted that the "Zero Tolerance" policy concerning the expulsion and suspension of students for the least infraction has been an abject failure. It has simply produced a generation of expelled/chronically suspended students.
Students have been expelled for, among other things, bringing aspirin to school. The result of "zero tolerance" has produced the following:
60% of Texas high school students have been expelled at least once
15% have been kicked out of class eleven or more times
83% of black students have been expelled at least once
The overwhelming majority of these disciplinary actions were for non-violent offenses and taken by school "administrators" - not the police. (Sharky&Sharky think that maybe an "I" was left out of administrators)
What can be gleaned from this nonsense?
Texas' Public School Police Force (are you kidding us?) has grown out of control and disproportionately with respect to student population - even when the number of teachers, coaches and other educational positions have been declining.
Fascism is just around the corner.
©Sharky&Sharky
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