That's refreshing

"We have seen a number of states toy with the idea of scaling back or trying to make the process of school discipline more rational," says Bob Schwartz, executive director of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia.

Kris Axtman in the Christian Science Monitor has more on what I hope is a growing reaction to Zero Tolerance policies. The lunatic implementations of some such policies have been in the news for years and, if the news reports are reasonably accurate, I think they constitute child abuse.

Gerald Newberry, executive director of the National Education Association's Health Information Network (said) "Unfortunately ... many school boards and school administrators...began taking first graders out of class for bringing nail clippers to school."

It has gone beyond that is some schools. It is past time these policies be changed.