Zero bullying tolerance policies are ineffective.
According to Dr. Neil Gottheil zero tolerance policies do not solve any problems but make them worse.
Since the 1970s, school suspension and expulsion rates in the United States have more than doubled to more than three million suspensions and over 97,000 expulsions in the year 2000. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline (October 2005). “Zero-tolerance” discipline policies have fueled the increase in recent years, as has the increasing reliance of school administrators and educators on law enforcement tactics to discipline children.
These expulsions can cause students to become criminals in later years.
