School Policies: Zero Tolerance=Zero Sense.

[SirFozzie]

It's encouraging people NOT to think, to not use common sense. After all, you won't NEED common sense when you're working 40 hours at some dead end job, right? You just need the r's. "Reading, wRiting, aRithmatic, and Rules."

Who cares if the rules are asinine..

[Tekneek]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Just so you can change that statement in the future to "nearly everyone" ...


More often than not, I find that have more confidence in "zero-tolerance" policies than I do in "judgement calls".

What is better about zero-tolerance policies? Is it better that people pretend to be robots than use their brains?

[Subby]

Fritz once killed a fellow third-grader with a Little Debbie Snack Cake...

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by Tekneek

Zero tolerance is dumb policy. Human beings have the ability to reason and make judgment calls. We should use it all of the time instead of dumbing ourselves down into zero-tolerance "I can't weigh the facts" type of rules/laws.

Bingo. Instead of dealing with the complexities of looking at context, we seem hell-bent on a system of binary judgement - it's either good or bad, right or wrong, etc. No room for middle ground, grey area, etc. It's analog vs. digital applied to human reasoning, and in this case I came down firmly in the analog camp.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Tekneek

What is better about zero-tolerance policies? Is it better that people pretend to be robots than use their brains?

Frankly, I've become convinced that what passes for most people's brains are an insult to the name.

[Tekneek]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Frankly, I've become convinced that what passes for most people's brains are an insult to the name.

Now you've got me. Suppose I should take that one personally? Those in charge of schools, that don't have brains, should lose their jobs, rather than implement zero-tolerance policies.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Tekneek

Suppose I should take that one personally?

LOL, no that really wasn't what I had I in mind.

{I suspect Tekneek isn't familiar with my belief in "the rule of the 80" -- basically says 80% of the people you meet in a lifetime are simply too f'n stupid to be worth the time or trouble to deal with them}

[ice4277]

Originally Posted by panerd

Or possibly banning compasses. Seeing as protractors are usually round, unsharp, plastic devices used to measure angles.

You can see how much I paid attention in match class

[ice4277]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

"the rule of the 80" -- basically says 80% of the people you meet in a lifetime are simply too f'n stupid to be worth the time or trouble to deal with them}

You must have worked in retail at some point in your life

[Tekneek]

Originally Posted by ice4277

You can see how much I paid attention in match class

What was match class? The name sounds interesting, and opens up a lot of possibilities. I'm not sure having a protractor OR a compass would be important in any of them...