Zero-Tolerance
Words: 1333 Pages: 4 3138Whether it is getting arrested for doodling on a desk, as Alexa Gonzales, a twelve-year-old student did in New York, or getting expelled from the school for bringing a clear, plastic toy gun in your backpack, as a seven-year-old student did in Florida, chances are that zero tolerance policies are to blame (Boccanfuso). This term itself can be traced back to 1980s when President Ronald Reagan was waging a war on drugs. To do so, he began encouraging the entire […]