I'm sure my Devoted Readers would consider the best insanely-restrictive Zero Tolerance policy out there to be one that doesn't exist. I'd agree, except that apparently doesn't stop some schools from applying such policies:
Suspension records will be expunged for a 14-year-old girl who was removed from Mustang Middle School for possession of prescription drugs.
Chloe Smith was suspended for a year after a drug-sniffing dog found prescription hormones in her locker on Dec. 3. School officials later reduced the suspension to five days.
The American Civil Liberties Union appealed her suspension to school administrators and were preparing to appeal to the school board when the settlement was offered.
"The school has been implementing a zero-tolerance policy, but doesn't have a zero-tolerance policy," ACLU attorney Tina Izadi said Tuesday.
Emphasis mine. I suppose we can applaud the school for not actually having such a policy forbidding students to take legal, prescribed medication on campus - but not when school administrators use their "discretion" to try to suspend such students and force them into "drug counseling." Zero Intelligence has the whole sordid tale.
Posted by kswygert at January 14, 2005 11:12 AM