{"id":562,"date":"2012-10-21T22:12:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T02:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=562"},"modified":"2012-10-21T22:12:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T02:12:47","slug":"why-zero-tolerance-policies-dont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Why Zero Tolerance Policies Don’t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the lessons I remember from the principalship class I took was that zero tolerance policies simply don’t work because at some point, some nice kid breaks the policy for a well meaning reason and you end up with egg all over your face. \u00a0Here’s a perfect example: the student who was unable to attend homecoming because of an overdue book.<\/a>\u00a0Here’s the policy:<\/p>\n

The school’s July\u00a0newsletter<\/a>\u00a0did tell parents that “students must have a zero balance for all fees and fines to participate in some special extracurricular activities or privileges.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s how it played out:<\/p>\n

Dominique’s mother went to the high school to complain.\u00a0She says the principal, Tracy Perkins, was unwilling to work with her.<\/p>\n

“She did not care one bit,” said Dominique’s Mom, Danielle Olmstead. “She asked me what grade she’s in, I\u00a0said freshman; she said ‘Oh there’s always next year.'”<\/p>\n

Dominique is in the accelerated reading program at the high school. Two or three weeks ago she checked out a murder mystery that was overdue when she went to buy the ticket.<\/p>\n

She offered to bring the book back that day but the school wouldn’t budge.<\/p>\n

“She’s not being punished because she got into a fight or anything like that,” said Olmstead. “She’s getting punished because she had an overdue library book for reading.\u00a0It’s ridiculous.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe what’s worse than a zero tolerance policy is continuing to enforce it even when you realize how ridiculous it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the lessons I remember from the principalship class I took was that zero tolerance policies simply don’t work because at some point, some nice kid breaks the policy for a well meaning reason and you end up with egg all over your face. \u00a0Here’s a perfect example: the student who was unable to … Continue reading Why Zero Tolerance Policies Don’t Work<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-reading"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-94","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}