Haughton Student Is Expelled For Having Midol At School

[rhertz]

Originally Posted by joepole

It's not in the best interest of the student, it's in the best interests of the students. Zero Tolerance policies are a good thing because they allow the administration to enforce rules without being charged with discriminating against any particular subset of the population.

Without such a policy when 90% of the students suspended for drug problems were of one particular race, the school would have no defense against charges of favoritism, leading to lack of enforcement, which is a detriment to the entire school. This girl is a casualty of an imperfect system that is better than any known alternative.

Zero Tolerance is all fine and dandy for things that are illegal such as guns and illegal drugs. But for an aspirin and other legal modern scientific advances that benefit mankind with little or no side effect, I have a feeling that there is some other motive in the picture, such as making someone's job easier without much consideration for others.