Zero tolerance = jailhouse hotel?(SECURITY TRENDS: The latest trends in school safety and security)(Safety policy in elementary schools)

District Administration | July 1, 2005| | Copyright

A 10-year old Philadelphia girl is taken to the police station in handcuffs for taking a pair of scissors to school for a project.

A 12-year-old Houston boy is taken to a juvenile detention center for unknowingly bringing to school a pocketknife left in his jacket from a Boy Scout meeting.

The students were disciplined under their schools' zero tolerance policy and some advocates are saying these codes of conduct have become so strict that schools are turning into criminal justice systems, or worse, jailhouses.

In a new report, Education on ...

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