# Should all children be allowed to go to school?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-all-children-be-allowed-to-go-to-school/148777>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 15, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-all-children-be-allowed-to-go-to-school/148777 "2003-01-15T17:30:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mothchunks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@Mothchunks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mothchunks)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-all-children-be-allowed-to-go-to-school/148777/21 "2003-01-27T16:02:31Z")

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Only children who don’t assault other children should be allowed to go to school. There needs to be a zero tolerance policy toward school violence; and before we get into splitting hairs, I think people can tell a difference between throwing a paper airplane and sending a kid to the ER.

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-all-children-be-allowed-to-go-to-school/148777/22 "2003-01-27T22:45:22Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mothchunks \*  
> \*\*Only children who don’t assault other children should be allowed to go to school. There needs to be a zero tolerance policy toward school violence; and before we get into splitting hairs, I think people can tell a difference between throwing a paper airplane and sending a kid to the ER. \*\*

So which is it? “zero tolerance” or telling “the difference bewteen throwing a paper airplane and sending a kid to the ER”? That’s exactly what “zero tolerance” is all about- there is no difference beteen any “act of violence”- any & all are treated with “zero tolerance”.

“Zero tolerance”= “zero judgement & intelligence”. Monkeys can be trained to make zero tolerance judgement calls.

What it seems you want is a “firm but fair anti-violence policy”. if that’s want you want- then you do NOT want “zero tolerance”.

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