John Venlet over at Improved Clinch: [1]
Schools’ zero tolerance rules have a tendency to relieve teachers and administrators from utilizing their reasoning skills, and their common sense.
While I understand your response, John, and I am sympathetic, I’m going to be a little less kind on the topic than are you.
After dealing with government school teachers for most of my life, I’ve become firmly convinced this is not a situation of administration teachers being relieved of their reasoning skills and their common sense. Rather I suspect that such rules were set up in the first place, because such people possessed no reasoning skills, no common sense, to begin with.
The particularly reasonless, the particularly senseless, end up being college professors. Usually , these end up in tenured positions. Erb, as an example. But thereby hangs a whole ‘nother thread, huh?
And why he should our magic marker wielding twelve year old, be expected to possess any amounts of either reasoning skills or common sense, when the pablum she’s been force fed for the last six and a half years or so, has been absolutely devoid of it? What we’re seeing here, is the result, not the cause. GIGO. Follow?