ABOUT FREAKING TIME: More Schools Are Rethinking “Zero Tolerance” Discipline. “Nearly two decades after a zero-tolerance culture took hold in American schools, a growing number of educators and elected leaders are scaling back discipline policies that led to lengthy suspensions and ousters for such mistakes as carrying toy guns or Advil. This rethinking has come in North Carolina and Denver, in Baltimore and Los Angeles — part of a phenomenon driven by high suspension rates, community pressure, legal action and research findings.”

Since this was obviously a dumb idea from the beginning, why are we allowing our kids to be taught by people who took two decades to grasp the obvious?