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Impact of Zero Tolerance Policies on American K-12 Education and Alternative School Models

Impact of Zero Tolerance Policies on American K-12 Education and Alternative School Models

Margaret Tseng, Corey Alexander Becker
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781466699359|ISBN10: 1466699353|EISBN13: 9781466699366
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9935-9.ch009
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Tseng, Margaret, and Corey Alexander Becker. "Impact of Zero Tolerance Policies on American K-12 Education and Alternative School Models." Critical Examinations of School Violence and Disturbance in K-12 Education, edited by Gordon A. Crews, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 135-148. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9935-9.ch009

APA

Tseng, M. & Becker, C. A. (2016). Impact of Zero Tolerance Policies on American K-12 Education and Alternative School Models. In G. Crews (Ed.), Critical Examinations of School Violence and Disturbance in K-12 Education (pp. 135-148). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9935-9.ch009

Chicago

Tseng, Margaret, and Corey Alexander Becker. "Impact of Zero Tolerance Policies on American K-12 Education and Alternative School Models." In Critical Examinations of School Violence and Disturbance in K-12 Education, edited by Gordon A. Crews, 135-148. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9935-9.ch009

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Abstract

Despite the original intent of zero tolerance policies in schools— to ensure guns and other dangerous weapons were kept out of schools—these policies have instead grown to encompass an endless variety of minor infractions that would, in previous generations, not necessarily result in the immediate removal of the student from the classroom. Zero tolerance policies do not proportionately discipline students and, instead, treats every child and situation the same. Further, studies confirm that as suspension, expulsion, and school-based arrests have increased since the mid-1990's, the majority of students being suspended, expelled, or arrested are predominately minority students. The goal of this chapter is to examine the application of zero tolerance policy in K-12 public schools and offer administrators and educators alternative school discipline models.

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