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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1894)	2/12/1999 7:44:00 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Respond to of 2390

Such a regulation may indeed be ridiculous... However, the argument about whether or not a regulation is ridiculous is a wholly separate argument from the argument about whether or not such a regulation (given that it exists) should be enforced equally. How would you feel if the principal who created this regulation had expelled other children who were caught, yet intervened to prevent his own child from being expelled?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1894)	2/15/1999 10:13:00 AM
From: J.B.C.	Respond to of 2390

>>How do you feel about the zero tolerance policy in some schools? Like lets say your kid is told repeatedly that no drugs are allowed at school, and then one day he brings in some allerest or something because hes allergic to the grass. He thinks he can get away with it but gets caught. Do you think he should dutifully be expelled? Im curious because I think these types of regulations are ridiculous, but there is a group that supports them - maybe you are one of those. << I agree that they're ridiculous. Like last year in Colorado a girl faced permanent expulsion because her mother packed a pairing knife in her lunch to cut a pear. She turned herself in and they expelled her. The school superintendent didn't have the gut's to overturn the expulsion because he said "that's what the rule told him he should do". Finally someone with a cooler head on their shoulders said this is stupid, and they let the girl back in to school. She was an "a" Student. Or, the girl who got expelled because she gave a friend Midal, because she had cramps, stupid! I think that these regulations are intended to keep drugs that we consider banned substances out of school, but why are they even needed? Isn't crack, marijauana, cocaine already illegal? These additional school regulations are totally unnecessary. Jim