Take Lakeisha Perry’s sons as an example of why minor offenses discourage students and cause them to become repeat offenders. She has 3 sons who have all been through some type of Zero-Tolerance Policy punishment, two have graduated and one has decided to drop out. Her youngest son is the one who has decided to drop out, due to the many problems he has ran into. He has been suspended, expelled and is now struggling with his academics. His first suspension was for using language that was inappropriate and it earned him 10 days. The one thing the school failed to do was alert the parent about it, and it soon lead to a bunch of stress, as well as anxiety, more missed days to to suspensions, and reinstatement. “Forget it. I’ll just get my
