Too Little Thought

Zero tolerance makes zero sense. To expel six or seven year old public school students for pointing "finger guns" at each other is insane. To send these babies to alternative schools with older students who have actually shot people is criminal. To banish a middle school girl because she is caught taking a Midol at lunch and send her to a detention center in the guise of a school next to other "students" sent there for selling meth on campus is equally preposterous. Such expulsions needlessly cost taxpayers, but much more important, ruin the lives of innocent children. We need discretion and judgement that includes a degree of discernment that across America we have apparently abdicated.