And, of course, at the heart of the case is the teacher's complaint that, in public schools, tolerance is the most prized value — unless it's tolerance of Christianity.
According to Rethinking Schools, "zero tolerance" disciplinary policies in schools are responsible for transforming minor transgressions of school rules that could be handled as educational opportunities into disciplinary matters where students are subject to suspension and often even into legal issues involving the police and courts.
By high school, no tolerance for the once-a-week churchgoers.
A high school gay tolerance group in the conservative community of Orange, Calif., held its first meeting in school Wednesday over the objections of the school district, which argues that the club should be banned because its issues of sexuality are inappropriate.
But was the school's tolerance of King's flamboyant behavior to blame for the fatal shooting on that tragic morning in February of 2008?
At the time, Gwen Agna, principal of Jefferson Street School, told Tolerance that "at least 50percentt of graduating 6th graders cite their Nature's Classroom trip, specifically the Underground Railroad activity, as one of their favorite school experiences".
The war on terror, the war on drugs, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school zero tolerance policies, eminent domain, private prisons: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns.
His policy of conciliation ended a period of rebellions, and led to the appearance of a new generation of monarchist politicians raised "in the school of tolerance, mutual respect and public interest"; which produced "the constitutional environment where the two great [political] parties of the Monarchy would take turns [in power] without excluding each other".
I will stand for a simple policy toward guns in all our schools: zero tolerance, period...
Nicotine gum may be considered a "drug" by some school zero-tolerance policies.
