My apologies for the lack of new content. My Lovely Wife and I have been moving our household into our new house over the past several days. As you can imagine, this took all of my available time and then some.
Normal posting should resume tomorrow. Thank you for your patience.
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Zero Intelligence is a play on “Zero Tolerance”, the knee jerk reactionary policies that plague our school systems. The implementation of a zero tolerance policy is the equivalent of giving up on common sense, reasonability and intellect. All infractions are grouped into types with uniform punishments regardless of the individual facts of the incident. Posession of Advil is treated as if it were equivalent to pushing crack. An honor student with the wrong type of pencil sharpener is punished the same as a known delinquent with a switchblade would be. Improper use of an inhaler leads to arrest as assault with a weapon. It is easy to see why we call these “Zero Intelligence Policies”.
The most frightening part of the above paragraph is that all of the examples cited are real. They are not hyperbole or fiction for effect. They all actually happened in various school systems in the United States. These and countless other incidents show just how badly zero tolerance policies fail our children.
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