Tuesday, September 05, 2006

 

Zero Tolerance?


Malcolm Gladwell has a short piece on the culture of zero tolerance in education. The author uses excellent examples. However his reach for significance reaches for a bridge to far with a military example. Overzealous enforcement of the rules is not a nation wide problem.

The implication that society has a zero tolerance problem can be refuted by a simple walk through the District of Columbia. Whatever can explain the social degradation of 2006, it is not a problem of zero tolerance.


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