Ending Zero Tolerance: The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline

Answers the calls of grassroots communities pressing for integration and increased education funding with a complete rethinking of school discipline

In the era of zero tolerance, we are flooded with stories about schools issuing draconian punishments for relatively innocent behavior. One student was suspended for chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun. Another was expelled for cursing on social media from home. Suspension and expulsion rates have doubled over the past three decades as z...