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From: LindyBill11/9/2004 7:01:05 AM
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ZERO INTELLIGENCE BLOG - Innocent? Yes. Punished anyway? Of course.
By Jim Peacock on Florida

Mother: Child got crack in treat bag A 6-year-old Tangelo Park Elementary School student got one heck of a treat this Halloween - a bag of crack. She brought it to school where another student identified the illegal drugs. Deputies decided after interviewing Berry that it was "evident that no one had criminal intent," according to the incident report. The case remained under investigation by narcotics investigators Friday night. The child attended Tangelo Park since kindergarten, school officials said. "She's a sweet little girl, not a discipline problem or anything," said Principal Robert Allen. "She was just caught in a situation that wasn't her fault."

Allen said the girl was suspended for three days, as school district policy requires. A sweet, innocent girl with no bad intent is caught in a situation that all of the adults agree wasn't her fault. She is suspended for three days because that's the policy. I can't think of a better example of why zero tolerance policies don't work. Who did it, how it was done, why it happened; none of these questions matter. The rule says "If A, then B". A happened so we're doing B regardless of how meaningless and incorrect it is.
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