{"id":45,"date":"2017-04-25T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-mholmes\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2017-05-10T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T20:25:31","slug":"zero-tolerance-policies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-mholmes\/zero-tolerance-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Tolerance Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ABC NEWS Zero Tolerance School Discipline Policies\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QJ6hvzG67C8?start=14&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<sup>18<\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Zero tolerance is the most widely implemented and scrutinized school discipline policy in the United States. A zero tolerance policy assigns explicit, predetermined punishments to specific violations of school rules, regardless of the situation or context of the behavior. In many cases, punishment for a violation under the policy is severe, such as suspension or expulsion from school. In theory, zero tolerance deters students from violent or illegal behavior because the punishment for such a violation is harsh and certain.&#8221;<sup>1<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zero Tolerance Policies started as a\u00a0way to wage the war on drugs. The Gun Free Schools Act of 1994, which mandates that any student found in possession of a firearm or other dangerous weapon must be expelled for a year, is the way in which Zero Tolerance was first instituted in schools nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 &#8220;Zero tolerance is the most widely implemented and scrutinized school discipline policy in the United States. A zero tolerance policy assigns explicit, predetermined punishments to specific violations of school rules, regardless of the situation or context of the behavior. In many cases, punishment for a violation under the policy is severe, such as suspension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-mholmes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-mholmes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-mholmes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-mholmes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-mholmes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-mholmes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-mholmes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}