http://zerointelligence.net Zero Tolerance = Zero Intelligence Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:13:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An immediate reaction to the article of two Korean boys expelled for an incident on the school bus would be a knee jerk condemnation of the school officials. Instead of going emotional, let's attempt to ‘smack a boot to their collective heads’ using some reasonable common sense.  Thoughtless Boys Will Be ... http://zerointelligence.net/archives/000793.php There are moments when you hear or read of something so boffo bizzare that the only decent reply is to raise an eyebrow and look unemotionally dumbfounded. My bizarre moment was reading the report of a Colorado school banning the game ‘Tag’. This is not the first school to ... http://zerointelligence.net/archives/000792.php KOLD News in Tuscon, Arizona reports on a 13-year-old Queen Creek boy who was suspended from Payne Junior High School after he drew guns on some papers. The school district filed paperwork saying the boy was drawing guns on his homework. School administrators say they will suspend anyone accused of ... http://zerointelligence.net/archives/000788.php Hypocrisy. As defined by dictionary.com, hypocrisy is a "pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess." That word has surfaced, yet again, as the first vocabulary word for the new school year in South Florida. New Florida Teachers Website As ... http://zerointelligence.net/archives/000785.php I received an email from an anonymous correspondent claiming to be a school administrator disgusted with the effects of zero tolerance. I debated with myself about the appropriateness of posting these stories as there are no specifics I can use to corroborate them. It could all be a ... http://zerointelligence.net/archives/000783.php I was sure I'd written about this when it happened, but a search of the archives says otherwise. Some months back, a girl was disciplined for violating a public school's dress code because she wore a denim skirt and socks with a picture of Tigger on them. The ... http://zerointelligence.net/archives/000782.php The Houston Chronicle reports that a girl in Katy, Texas has received a mandatory four-month assignment to an alternative school. She wrote "I love Alex" on a gym wall with a Sharpie. That's graffiti and a level 4 offense. Under zero tolerance rules, that makes it the ... http://zerointelligence.net/archives/000781.php The Supreme Court recently heard Morse v. Frederick, which captured the attention of the general public because of the appeal of how most people know it: the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case. In essence, the Court's ruling has strengthened the powers of discipline on the part of school administrators ... http://zerointelligence.net/archives/000780.php Paul Clinton of the Daily Breeze reports on an elementary school's narrow avoidance of a horror only a step shy of another Virginia Tech massacre. Shortly before fifth-grade graduation at the Cornerstone School at Pedregal, the administration discovered that eleven students were planning on bringing military weapons to the ... http://zerointelligence.net/archives/000779.php The Washington Post reports today on some nonsense at Kilmer Middle School in Vienna, Virginia. A boy has been disciplined for hugging his girlfriend in violation of the school's "no touching" rule. That's right, no touching, of any sort. According to the rules, hugging your boyfriend or girlfriend violates ... http://zerointelligence.net/archives/000778.php