Revival
The fight against Zero Tolerance policies and the harm they cause many good children isn’t over.
While this site was founded and maintained for quite some time by Jim Peacock, events have overtaken Jim and prevented him from continuing his valuable work in this area. His three children are now home-schooled and as you would imagine, this takes a lot of Jim’s time, much of which was previously spent on this site.
My name is Aaron Overton. I also have three children, although they are still in public school. I became interested in Jim’s work some time ago after reading about some of the cases of zero tolerance gone bad on OpinionJournal’s Best of the Web. I was disappointed to see the site become stale and tracked down Jim to find out what was going on.
I have a lot of respect for Jim’s choice to home school, but I wanted to see this site continue to carry on the fight, so after some discussion, Jim and I agreed to transfer the site to me, in effect passing the torch. There’s a fair amount of paperwork involved in such a thing, but three months later, it’s done.
It will likely still be a couple of weeks before I get this rolling again with the kind of regularity Jim set as the performance bar as I figure out the research and editorial process. In the meantime, I invite you to send your tips in to tips@zerointelligence.net as so many of you have done before with such great value.
This site can and will make a difference. By bringing these stories out more publicly, we can help our children’s educators get back to using their heads when it comes to discipline.
Welcome back! This is a valuable and courageous effort, and it is great to see someone pick up Jim’s banner.
I’m SO glad to see this site back up and running! After viewing the Cnn.com video story about the 6th graders having sex in class, I new it was time to check in again with zero intelligence! Here’s the link to a comment place if ya wanna check it out. http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2007/03/sixthgraders_ha.html
Good to see zerointelligence is still alive, if he transferred the tips backlog you’ll prolly see all the ones i’ve been sending in the hopes something like this would happen.
It is great to have this blog active again.
Aaron, thank you for picking up the challenge.
I’m glad to see that somebody’s running the site again! It’s a great service to the public.
I have a question, how might we contact you for reasons other than tips because i would like to do so.
oh if you really want tihs sight to make a difference contact the local TV stations about the “crimes” I’m sure that due to the race for good ratings they’ll jump all over the stories.
I am so glad to see this site back. I used to visit daily when it was active and it was still in my bookmarks.
I am also a homeschooler and have always been one. Tell Jim I wish him the best on his homeschooling journey.