Boy suspended over utensil gets reprieve

Dressed in a button-down shirt and tie and speaking calmly and articulately, first-grader Zachary Christie hardly looks or acts like the sort of kid who should be spending 45 days in reform school. But, thanks to a zero-tolerance policy, that’s where Zachary’s Delaware school system wanted him to go after he made the mistake of taking his favorite camping utensil to school.

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Delaware 1st grader has 45-day suspension lifted

A Delaware first-grader who was facing 45 days in an alternative school as punishment for taking his favorite camping utensil to school can return to class after the school board made a hasty change granting him a reprieve.

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La Russa supports zero tolerance on drugs

St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said it over and over Saturday: Baseball has no place for performance-enhancing drugs.

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Tougher Policy on Some Illegal Crossings

A U.S. Border Patrol effort aimed at prosecuting more illegal immigrants is being expanded to include parts of far West Texas and southern New Mexico.

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Backlash Forms Against 'Zero Tolerance'

Fifth-graders in California who adorned their mortarboards with tiny toy plastic soldiers this week to support troops in Iraq were forced to cut off their miniature weapons. A Utah boy was suspended for giving his cousin a cold pill prescribed to both students. In Rhode Island, a kindergartner was suspended for bringing a plastic knife to school so he could cut cookies.

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First Grader Suspended for Harassment

A first grader was suspended for three days after school officials said he sexually harassed a girl in his class by allegedly putting two fingers inside the girl's waistband while she sat on the floor in front of him.

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This morning, 166 Wilson County middle school children were sent home on the first day of stricter enforcement of the county dress code. Each child received a three-day suspension.

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Keyshaun Harley never thought the social networking site Facebook would get him in trouble but the 11th grade Ridgeway High School student quickly learned nothing is private on the World Wide Web.

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A 17-year-old Eagle Scout in upstate New York has been barred from stepping foot on school grounds for 20 days — for keeping a 2-inch pocketknife locked in a survival kit in his car.

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A 6-year-old boy's excitement over joining the Cub Scouts may just land him in reform school for 45 days.

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Finding character witnesses when you are 6 years old is not easy. But there was Zachary Christie last week at a school disciplinary committee hearing with his karate instructor and his mother's fiancé by his side to vouch for him.

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Zachary Christie is a six-year old student in Newark, Delaware who is facing 45 days in reform school because he brought his new Cub Scout eating utensil to school for lunch.

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NEWARK, Del. — Finding character witnesses when you are 6 years old is not easy. But there was Zachary Christie last week at a school disciplinary committee hearing with his karate instructor and his mother's fiancé by his side to vouch for him.

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During a hurricane, shelters are set up everywhere, even special ones for people with disabilities or pets.

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A new Florida law revising zero-tolerance discipline policies in schools led Gov. Charlie Crist to say it will reduce "the wrongful placement of students in the juvenile justice system."

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Under the Safe School Act, the district says the instrument is a razor and is considered dangerous. They suspended 15-year-old Taylor Ray-Jetter.

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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Members Charged With Hazing See more irresistible headlines

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Really, is it ever possible to be too safe? Especially when it's our children at stake?

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When a Fairfax County mother got an urgent call from school last month reporting that her teenage daughter was caught popping a pill at lunchtime, she did not panic. "It was probably her birth-control pill," she thought. She was right.

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From the you-can't-be-serious department: Savana Redding was a 13-year-old honors student at a small Arizona middle school. In math class one morning the principal ordered her to pack up and follow him to his office.

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Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on — black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt — the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago. She was 13 and in eighth grade. ... Ms. Redding, an honors student, had no pills.

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SAFFORD, Ariz. — Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on — black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt — the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago. She was 13 and in eighth grade.

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More than a dozen Houston school district employees are getting a lesson in the zero-tolerance policies typically applied to students as they await court hearings on drug charges that could land them in jail.

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Ten-year-old Bradley Geslak was suspended from school this week for bringing a Memorial Day souvenir to school.

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Just hours after being born, an allegedly sex-obsessed infant was taken into custody on charges of harassment.

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A call from a parent stationed in a war zone has landed a Texas high school student in hot water, and his mother is asking the school to ease up on the punishment.

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The businessman was meeting with clients for lunch at Mimi's Café when he noticed the woman. Sitting a few tables over with her 4-year-old boy, she seemed groggy — yet she was drinking a mimosa.

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In schools across the country kids as young as three and four-years-old are now facing charges of sexual harassment that will stay with them permanently on their school records. boy girl

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....The principal of St. Clare of Montefalco Catholic School had students stay after a Mass last month and informed the fifth- through eighth-graders that she has a zero-tolerance policy for cursing.

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