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I was reading an email that i just got from the libertarian party...It was on the topic of Zero Tolerance laws and brought back a memory of mine...

Just recently i learned that at a middle school in my city, two kids were suspended for possesion of "marijuana". The vice principal caught two kids in the bathroom...one was selling to the other.
In the end, it turned out to be tea and not marijuana, but both kids still recieved a suspension of 8 days and 2 days of in school suspension.

Some other examples that were in the e-mail are as follows:

* A 6-year-old in Colorado was suspended for
violating the
school's anti-drug policy after a teacher saw him
share a lemon drop
candy with a friend. The school also called an
ambulance for the lemon-
drop-eating friend.

* In New Jersey, a 9-year-old was suspended --
and forced to
undergo psychiatric counseling -- for threatening to
shoot a classmate
with a rubber band.

* A 10-year-old in Colorado was expelled
because her mother put
a small knife in her lunchbox to cut an apple. When
the girl realized
the knife could violate the school's anti-weapons
policy, she turned it
over to a teacher. The school then expelled the girl.

* Three grammar school students in Colorado
were suspended for
possessing a weapon -- a water pistol.

* A 13-year-old in Arizona, inspired by the
movie October Sky,
built a rocket -- fueled by three match heads -- out
of a Pringles
potato chip canister. When he brought the potato chip
canister to
school he was suspended for a year for having a
"weapon." The school
also reported him to the police.

* In Michigan, a third-grader was suspended
for showing his
classmates a gun-shaped medallion, slightly larger
than a charm for a
necklace. He had found the piece of jewelry in a
snowbank. "State law
requires us to take action even though it was a toy,"
said a school
administrator.

* A school in New Jersey suspended two
kindergarten students
for playing "cops and robbers" on the playground. They
had pointed
their fingers at each other like guns and shouted,
"Bang bang!"

* In Maryland, a school suspended a 9-year-old
after he drew a
picture of a gun on a piece of paper.

* In Virginia, eight students were suspended
for one week after
they were caught sniffing Kool-Aid. They were charged
with "possession
of contraband" because they were "using Kool-Aid in a
way that imitated
the use of illegal drugs," school officials said.

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I just don't understand why anyone would be so fearful as to suspend and expel students for non-crimes. School officials need to rethink what they are doing and why they are doing it.
i'd like more input on this issue...please reply: