The Madness of Zero Tolerance

Published in From Me To You - 3 mins - Sep 15
The Madness of Zero Tolerance
This article was featured in our weekly newsletter, the Liberator Online. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. When news broke this week about 14-year-old Ahmed Mohammed’s arrest for building a clock at home and bringing it to school, I immediately thought of zero tolerance incidents in the recent past. Most specifically, I was reminded of the ridiculousness of the suspension received by my high school class president during our sophomore year. David was our class president, an honor roll student intent on attending Northwestern University, a member of the marching and symphonic band, a leader in many academic and extracurricular clubs, and an all-around good guy. He was a good guy that had to explain on every college application and in every interview about a 10-day suspension in the 10th grade for bringing a weapon to school.

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