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Girl suspended for bringing rocks to school

by Bethany Sanders, Posted May 6th 2008 2:00PM

If you've been reading ParentDish for long, then you know that kids are finding new and exciting ways to get themselves suspended from school all the time. Taking calls from parents stationed in Iraq, smelling their own shirt, and sporting a trendy ...
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10--year-old arrested for cutting her lunch with a knife

by Sandy Maple, Posted Dec 18th 2007 4:04PM

In yet another example of zero tolerance run amok, a 10-year-old girl in Ocala, Florida is facing felony weapons charges for bringing a steak knife to school. "She did not use it inappropriately. She did not threaten anyone with it. She didn't pull ...
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Zero tolerance strikes again

by Sandy Maple, Posted Oct 22nd 2007 4:29PM

This time, it's a high school girl named Amber Dauge who is paying the price for violating a policy that is inflexible by design. Amber was expelled from Goose Creek High School in Charleston, South Carolina because she had a weapon in her ...
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Parents unhappy with policy against fighting

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Feb 9th 2007 8:01AM

Like many schools, Rush-Henrietta Senior High School in North-Western New York has a zero-tolerance policy about fighting at school. Some parents, however, are calling it a zero-thinking policy. The way the policy is being implemented, if one student ...
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First Grader suspended for bringing real gun to school

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 6th 2006 3:28PM

Most schools these days have a zero tolerance policy towards weapons of any kind, including toys that represent weapons. These policies are generally communicated to the parents at the start of the school year. Unfortunately, not everyone pays ...
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Update: Squirt gun suspension overturned

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Sep 22nd 2006 9:26AM

Well, it seems that Blogging Baby's readers are not the only ones who thought that a ten-day suspension was too harsh a punishment for a first grader who brought a cheap, orange squirt gun to school. The Kansas City, Missouri school district thinks ...
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First Grader suspended for bringing squirt gun to school

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Sep 21st 2006 3:35PM

Most schools these days have a zero tolerance policy towards weapons of any kind, including toys that represent weapons. These policies are generally communicated to the parents at the start of the school year. Unfortunately, not everyone pays ...
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