Virginia Beach sixth-grader Adrionna Harris
took a razor away from a troubled student who was cutting himself
and threw it in the trash. When school administrators found out,
they gave her a certificate of merit for helping a classmate.
Ha, ha! Of course they didn’t, writes A. Barton Hinkle. They
gave her a 10-day suspension, with a recommendation that she be
expelled. For three or four seconds there, she was in possession of
a dangerous object. It’s the latest example, Hinkle explains, of
how zero tolerance policies are hurting kids and ruining
schools.
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