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Zero Tolerance: Doubtful Indeed

Many schools around the country have been faced with violence and even actual deaths. Take the incident at Columbine, for example. Many schools for this very reason have proposed and in some cases even imposed a policy called, The Zero Tolerance Policy. The article, "Taking Zero Tolerance to the Limit" by Jesse Katz, is about the absolute ban of drugs and weapons in schools. It doesn't work. It doesn't work because it punishes everyone for the problems of few, it's too extreme and there is still no clear line between what is a drug and what is a weapon.
First of all, the zero tolerance policy is very unfair because it punishes everyone for the problems of few. Even if you're the best student in the school and have never taken any drugs or used any weapons except for the butter knife, you still have to feel uncomfortable as if you really have used drugs or weapons. For example, in the article by Jesse Katz, when it talks about the girl who......

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