Tuesday 13 October 2009
Erasers, Out!
Ed Rasimus writes what needs to be written on the nonsense of zero-tolerance policies in schools. On top of what Mr Rasimus says I would add that a zero-tolerance policy requires the absence of the mental powers of discrimination; this is nothing less than the deliberate erasure of the human mind - and that is increasingly the real purpose of schools these days.
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