Running head: ZERO TOLERANCE Zero Tolerance Tara Harrigan, Udawna Neal, Shamada Platt, Shareese Williams Grand Canyon University Legal Issues in Education EDA 555 Dr. Denise Geier February 06, 2013 Zero Tolerance Zero tolerance began as a government plan to keep our schools safe and is now believed to be a major contributing factor to the downfall of the public education system. This policy stems from the Gun-free School Act (GFSA) of 1994. The act mandated that any student found to
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Driving a motor vehicle is a privilege. A car is as dangerous as loaded weapon. There are over 255,000,000 registered vehicles in U.S. More than 5.8 million crashes occur every year. The economic cost of crashes exceeds $230 Billion. A fatal crash can cost as much as $500,000. Each year, over 37,000 people die in car-related crashes. One in every three collisions results in injury. There are two types of bad drivers—Aggressive and Unaware. The first step to become better is to identify your
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“Zero-tolerance” is the policy of applying laws or penalties to even minor infringements of a code in order to reinforce its overall importance and enhance deterrence. In the reading “Zero Tolerance”, Shawn Hubler stands on the opposite side about “zero-tolerance” on campus and even in our society. “Zero-tolerance” is a blind rule that is focusing on punishment only. There is no judgment and no discretion about the offenders and the cases. “Zero-tolerance” may cause bad influence on the offenders’
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Help with out school suspension Through the years, public and private schools alike find ways to innovate and improve their discipline policies. However, in some schools the inflicting of suspension upon students is abused. Although the law permits schools to suspend a student due to possession of deadly weapons in school grounds some schools suspend its students for minor violations. In California Alone more than 400000 students were suspended in one year. Even though out-of-school suspension
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these problems, these schools have implemented zero tolerance policies and have increased police presence in these schools. While maintaining a safe school environment is necessary for students to learn, zero tolerance policies and high police presence have resulted in situations like the case of the spilt birthday cake. This case is one of the more extreme cases that these policies have caused, but many
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are calling them and the more a student receives the more sever the punishment. Four points leads to a parent teacher meeting, eight points results in parents and students meeting with administrators of the school, and so on. Before, they had a zero-tolerance policy, which is ideal in situations that are extreme, such as: weapons and drugs, but not so ideal when you have no set way of disciplining a child for inappropriate behavior or disrespect. Since this new
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The zero tolerance approach is an aggressive police tactic in which officers are more proactive towards trying to significantly reduce certain types of offenses (Fritsch, Liederbach, Taylor & Caeti, 2009, pg. 87). This tactic allows officers to have more interaction with citizens so that the officers can identify those citizens who are committing the crimes that the police department is trying to eradicate through the zero tolerance approach (Fritsch et al., 2009, pg. 87). In the zero tolerance approach
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No Tolerance and No Bulling Policies: Why They Do Not Work "Zero Tolerance Policies" were first instated into schools, to enforce suspension and expulsion, in response to students; violating; weapons, drugs and violent act policies that were already in place. Shortly after, schools began to instate “No Bulling Policies” partly to a high suicide rate among teenagers due to bulling. The consequences for violating these policies can now go beyond expulsion, and have legal implications. In theory
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Title: Not on Our Watch! By Glading, Randall article tells how the administration at Yorktown High School, in Yorktown Heights enforced a zero tolerance policy. It was brought to one of the administrators’ attention that some of the student in the school had been drinking at football games. A zero tolerance policy was enforced immediately. Yorktown High administrators and staff came together to monitor the students more closely at the foot games. The first game after the policy was enforced. Two
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Zero Tolerance By Purple Team Grand Canyon University: EDA 555 Instructor: Norman Hale February 25, 2015 Zero tolerance policies began in 1994 following the passage of the Gun-Free Schools Act (GFSA). It was generated in response to numerous school shootings that had taken place across the United States (US). The Gun-Free Schools Act entail policy that forces schools to expel students who possess or carry a gun(s) while they are on school campuses
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