Drawbacks of the Zero Tolerance Policy

During work I hear the telephone rings, I can tell that it is a child's school. The school principal tells you that your child was suspended for one month due to a plastic knife in his / her lunch box when you answer the phone. It is meaningless to arrange a hearing because the decision can not be undone. These are some of the impact of zero tolerance policy. Zero tolerance policy has a disproportionate impact on African Americans and youth in urban areas, continues to send cradle to prison pipeline, builds prison culture in urban areas, and provides devastating long-term results to young people To bring it out, it should be eliminated.

Zero tolerance policy is a school disciplinary policy that sets certain results or penalties for specific crimes. According to the definition of zero tolerance policy, the policy that "irrational rules and policies are the same for all people, but unfairly influence people sharing specific attributes" is always discriminatory. The zero tolerance approach was originally introduced in the 1980s. Reducing drug use at school In the 1990s, zero tolerance policy was more widely used. In order to reduce the violence of the gun, "school law there is no farm" of 1994 (GFSA) is, to the protected school in the capital of the federal government, to expel a student to bring a gun to school or school district during the calendar year policy We are seeking to "make" it. Since students are participating in local law enforcement agencies, the distinction between law school violations and laws has become unclear.

Zero tolerance policy means that schools are not tolerant of violations of any kind of misconduct or school rules, no matter how small, unintentional, or subjective. At Zero Tolerance Policy School, pauses and expulsion are common general methods to deal with bad behavior. Studies have shown that pauses and evictions have greatly increased due to the implementation of zero tolerance policy. Educator Henry Giroux said in a study by Michie that, after taking the policy of zero tolerance at the school in Chicago, the number of pauses increased by 51%, about 32 times over the four years It was. They emerged from the expulsion of 21 in the 1994 - 95 academic year to 668 in the 1997 - 98 academic year. Likewise, Giroux quoted a report from the news report of Denver Rockies, found between 1993 and 1997, that the eviction rate of public schools in the city increased by over 300%.

In 2014, a survey on data in academic disciplines was conducted. We found that pauses and expulsion caused by zero tolerance policy do not reduce school confusion. The authors of the study noted that "zero tolerance on school discipline is not the best way to build a safe learning environment." Zero tolerance policy may be viewed as a quick solution to student problems. This seems like a simple behavior-reactive situation, but ignores mitigation situations, which is often an important detail in student events. Even civil judges will consider relaxing the situation before making a decision. If a zero tolerance policy is adopted in an adult court, it is fundamentally unfair and unconstitutional due to the negligence of the law including appropriate procedure and cruel and abnormal punishment.