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www.thefiscaltimes.com/Media/Slideshow/2014/08/14/11-Ridiculous-Reasons-Children-Got-Suspended-School?page=10. www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-shocking/the-10-dumbest-reasons-kids-got-suspended-from-school/?view=all

www.thefederalistpapers.org/education-2/you-wont-believe-the-insane-reason-this-boy-got-suspended-from-school. thestir.cafemom.com/tweens_teens/137795/stupid_reason_768_kids_get

I can go on and on

I'm sure there are exaggerations but Pam, trust me when I say you need the whole picture. For example. Kid comes to school with steak knife with a plan to kill all the adults. Plan is deemed well thought out and student deemed capable of carrying out plan. He's banned from bringing any weapon or making any weapon or fashioning any weapon out of common objects. He fashions a candy cane into an extremely sharp point. He then tries to make other stabbing type weapons out of classroom objects. He pisses in a bottle and mixes it with ice tea and tries to serve it to an adult. He brings his ADHD medication to school to try to slip it in someone's drink. Anyone he can hurt. Does any of that sound innocent?

And this was an inner city school, child was also 9. Kids in these schools aren't biting pop tarts into gun shapes or growing their hair long or getting suspended for sexual harassment. These are extremely violent children with no moral compass.

Certainly not. But the over use of zero tolerance has lead to some ridiculous cases and they don't seem to be isolated.

I think, and this is my professional opinion, a lot of these zero tolerance incidents are in districts that don't have a real baseline for legitimate suspension worthy offenses.

Excellent. Ty

I have to agree with this. What is the alternative? Leave these kids in class so they can ruin the teachers attempt at educating the rest of the class?

This many? How many is too many? Do you have any criteria by which you could say this is way out of hand?

Agree with the idea that removing a trouble maker helps the other students. It's not the job of teachers to focus on one child at the expense of others. I am disappointed in this clearly biased poll.

The solution to this is not to remove discipline from the children. It's to get the parents more involved. A student causing distractions with inappropriate clothing needs to be removed. That inappropriate clothing was bought and worn with the OK of the parents. They're as much to blame if not more than the child. When growing up in a Texas district, all parents were required to sign a student code of conduct at the beginning of the year. Teaching a student that there is consequences for their actions or inactions is a very important lesson in life.

Parents don't want to be involved. They just stick the kid in front of the Xbox to play Grand Theft Auto all day while they're suspended.