Zero Tolerance

A 1200 word essay examining the inanity and the violation of rights that is "zero tolerance" in our schools.

As is usually the case when the government is involved, conformity, control, and expansion of power over the individual motivates those who refuse to examine their own conduct too closely. This attitude of, “Don’t question my authority. Do it my way because I said so. Do it because I can make you do it,” will, in fact, intimidate many people into obeying even the most outrageous of commands.

One can only hope that other individuals ensnared in this insanity will witness this kind of arbitrary exercise of force, of might makes right, and begin to question the legitimacy of such leadership and the idiotic nonsense the bureaucrats seek to force down their throats, not only in the realm of education but in life, in general.