Legislative initiatives should encourage schools and school districts to provide a variety of disciplinary alternatives prior to school suspension and expulsion (Andrew). Many authority figures, such as teachers and school security, stereotype all racial minorities as being dangerous, uneducated, and inferior in all aspects of life with the exception of sports and sex (Thompson). The authority that teachers hold over their students can be dangerous to the forming of personal relationships between student and teacher. If students are scared of teachers and the discipline that they implement, they are less likely to trust their teachers and feel safe at school. Questionable applications of zero tolerance policies, paves the way for
