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Article: The Problem with 'Zero': On tolerance and common sense in the schools.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 28, 2001
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You know the stories. They have been cropping up in everyday conversation among all classes and conditions of Americans for four or five years now.
--A Pittsburgh kindergartner was disciplined in 1998 because his Halloween firefighter costume included a plastic axe.
--A ten-year-old girl at McElwain Elementary in Thornton, Colo., repeatedly asked a certain boy on the playground if he liked her. The boy complained to a teacher. School administrators threatened to suspend the girl, citing the school's "zero tolerance" guidelines for sexual harassment.
--In Cobb County, Ga., a sixth-grader was suspended last year because the ten-inch key chain on ...