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A New Trend in Schools

The term "Zero Tolerance" appears in a True story for the first time. A 5-year-old girl is suspended from kindergarten(!) for at item "that resemble weapons" -- a fingernail file.

It wasn't too long until I started noting that ZT truly was a trend -- an awful one. Eleven years later as I post this entry to the web, it remains the most-suggested story type in reader story submissions -- and we've watched it spread beyond schools and into the "real world".

Posted February 9, 1997 8:00 PM | Zero Tolerance | Permalink

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