"Zero Tolerance" policies in the schools are bullshit

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17. They're also racist.

Quick questions:

What groups get hit with the full penalties of zero-tolerance most often?

What groups manage to always have a blind eye turned to them when they break the rules, thus getting away scott-free?

Three guesses and the first two don't count.

So you have the classic zero-tolerance administrative shit-move: Turn a blind eye when a minority kid gets bullied, even beaten, but expel him when he finally gets sick of it and reacts even slightly against his bullies.

They make racist rule-enforcement and the school-to-prison pipeline even worse, because they remove all proportionality from the discipline process, so administrators can cower behind the rules when they have to justify why they're removing "undesirables" from their schools.