My favorite quote from this story below comes from Kenneth Trump, National School Safety and Security Services consulting firm, who said zero tolerance policies can work if "common sense is applied." When we realize -- there is NO COMMON SENSE to Zero Tolerance! - Sheila, PCCY
Girl's arrest for doodling raises concerns about zero tolerance
CNN) -- There was no profanity, no hate. Just the words, "I love my friends Abby and Faith. Lex was here 2/1/10 :)" scrawled on the classroom desk with a green marker.
Alexa Gonzalez, an outgoing 12-year-old who likes to dance and draw, expected a lecture or maybe detention for her doodles earlier this month. Instead, the principal of the Junior High School in Forest Hills, New York, called police, and the seventh-grader was taken across the street to the police precinct.
Alexa's hands were cuffed behind her back, and tears gushed as she was escorted from school in front of teachers and -- the worst audience of all for a preadolescent girl -- her classmates.
"They put the handcuffs on me, and I couldn't believe it," Alexa recalled. "I didn't want them to see me being handcuffed, thinking I'm a bad person."
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I couldn't agree with you more--- and I was the one semi-quoted.
What I said was that most school administrators strive for firm, fair, and consistent discipline applied with good common sense. Unfortunately, in cases like the NYC case, the common sense part is missing too often. Umfortunately, the semi-quote was correct, but the sentence it was used in did not reflect my position. See our web page on so-called zero tolerance at http://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/zero_tolerance.html
Also follow upcoming postings at my new blog at www.schoolsecurityblog.com
Ken Trump
National School Safety and Security Services
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