"Gov. Charlie Crist will visit Robert E. Lee Senior High School Wednesday, June 17, to sign Senate Bill 1540, which requires school boards to revise their zero-tolerance policies to ensure that students expelled or referred to law enforcement pose a serious threat to school safety, and are not expelled or arrested for petty misconduct."
Petty misconduct that nationally has resulted in such completely overreaching disciplinary actions as:
The first grader caught with a set of scary nail clippers on his person (expelled);
Or the high-school girl who brought a dull butter knife to school in order to spread peanut butter on her toast (expelled);
Or the honor student who took her dreaded prescribed birth-control pill at lunchtime all by herself, instead of adhering to the humiliating policy of having to turn in all of her meds to the school nurse each day (suspended 2 weeks, recommendation for expulsion);
And, of course, the recently publicized case of a girl who got nailed for having one of those deadly eyebrow shavers in her handbag (expelled).
It looks like, at least in one state, the epidemic of these kinds of draconian, out-of-all-proportion punishments, robotically imposed by automaton administrators who aren't allowed to think for themselves, will soon be ending.
We hope that other states will soon join Florida and revise their own zero-tolerance rules.
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