Saturday, October 3, 2009
Easing 'Zero Tolerance': Texas Changes a Post-Columbine Law
Texas is a very strict state, when it comes to criminal offenses. I think they should worry more about criminals out on the streets. Murderers, rapers, thieves those big bad criminals that do need to be punished. Not poor high school kids that don't have an idea of what they are doing. For example, in the article it talked about police finding a girl's stepbrother's theater prop sword in the back seat of her car. She got taken to a Juvenile detention center, had to enroll in a Alternative Education Program (DAEP) because of her high school suspension. She was a top academic student in her class;she was in National Honor Society. She managed to stay on top while at DAEP. From being the 11th top student in her class to 9th. In her case, even the dumbest person would know that she shouldn't of got that punishment. Other kids who would get in trouble like that wouldn't event try to stay in school. Texas should ease up on those kind of policies.
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I completely agree with you. It seems to me that is was based off of the officer's perspective of the sword in her car instead of the facts. I wonder if they even analyzed all of the facts before deciding on her punishment. I mean if they are so worried about little things like that then it must be cake being a criminal over there.
ReplyDeleteDavid -- No kidding! What a mess! We've lost our perspective and have become quite reactionary, it seems. Plus, educators are scared because they're under the microscope, too, and get blamed for things they have no control over. Quite the mess, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteGood work, David, good choices and responses to the material!
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