Boy Suspended for Smelling Marker

WESTMINSTER —A Westminster parent says Adams School District 50 overreacted by suspending a third-grade student for smelling Sharpie marker fumes and the clothing on which he'd drawn a stripe.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_8810662

First, sorry for the small number of posts over the past week, I was out of town and even though I had internet, I had very little computer time.

If this boy needs punishment, it should be the parents to decide what is needed. If it were me I would simply buy him markers that are child safe to smell and put in your mouth. This is what kind of nonsense the zero tolerance policy on drugs leads to. 

Comments

[Jack Woehr]

Zero tolerance -- what a philosophy for raising children!

I'm an engineer -- we measure things to tolerances -- no physical system exhibits a tolerance of Zero (0).

Zero tolerance is a fancy way of saying, "Let's demand perfection from our children and punish them harshly when they fail to achieve our expectation of perfection."

Zero tolerance believers are not, I fear, people who actually like children.