re: Obama on school discipline

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Friend taught at a crap school in Memphis a couple years ago. Caught a student with a bunch of weed...a zero tolerance drug policy is in place so the student should be turned over to the police, right? No. The principal just let her sit in her office all day and return to class as normal the next day because she didn't want to get fired for having too many students expelled or suspended.

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When I was a freshman in college living in a dorm, at the end of the year we found out from our resident assistant that his superior had instructed him, if he encounters people getting high, to confiscate the marijuana, destroy it, and not call the police. I wish we had known about this policy at the start of the year!