Pubdate: Wed, 28 Feb 2001
Source: Fresno Bee, The (CA)
Copyright: 2001 The Fresno Bee
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Author: Woodrow E. Nichols, Jr.

END 'ZERO TOLERANCE'

I did not raise both of my daughters in this fair city of ours in order for 
them to gain their primary education in the modified prisons some of the 
more deluded among us still call schools. I am talking about the insanity 
of the "zero tolerance" policy. In my opinion, based upon my own personal 
experience with this hellish policy, zero tolerance -- yes, even more than 
the infidelity of President Clinton -- destroyed my daughters' faith in our 
system.

And now I see that Fresno Unified School District is sponsoring another 
multimillion-dollar bond measure, especially now that they only need a 55% 
majority of the vote to succeed. I will never vote for another school 
measure as long as the madness of zero tolerance continues to hold the 
petty paranoid minds of the school officials and boards in sway.

Woodrow E. Nichols Jr., Fresno
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