Personal Narrative: Zero-Tolerance In High School

Improved Essays
My high school has a zero-tolerance policy when it pertains to fighting. Therefore, it does not matter if you are not the instigator of a fight; it is an automatic suspension. Unfortunately, on two occasions, I was suspended and both times for fighting.
The first incident occurred in October 2016, because female students were repeatedly bullying and calling me derogatory “black” names due to my dark skin tone. The second time was at a football match, hosted at another school in November 2017, between two sisters who were not happy about an altercation between themselves and a friend of mine, so they decided if they could not fight my friend then I was the next best person.
Owing to these two fights, I have learned that not weighing my actions,

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Rebound Summarizer

    • 224 Words
    • 1 Pages

    Rebound Summarizer- Reading 1 It was the first day of school and Sean had already gotten in a fight with David a kid who was in a wheel chair. Sean was on the wheel chair ramp and was not getting out of David’s way, that’s how the fight started. Although Sean did not hit David he was accused of starting the fight because he had been in previous fights last year.…

    • 224 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    After graduating from high school I went to the army to finish my mandatory Military training and national service. Afterwards I was admitted to Eritrean Institute of Technology, however, while attending there in Spring 2012 in run in trouble with the school administration. I was accused of being a member of an opposition group, which lead to my detention and interrogation. The interrogation included torture and because of it I ended up in a hospital unconscious with multiple injuries. I later escaped from the hospital.…

    • 180 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    Zero Tolerance In School

    • 1101 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The implementation of the zero tolerance policy seems to be complicated by school administrators’ fear of violence, resulting in exorbitant suspensions and expulsions of students committing minor infractions against school policy. As these negative incidents involving unjustified suspensions of students increase, the drop-out and failure rates will continue to increase as well. However, the incidence of violence and general disobedience in schools must be addressed. Zero tolerance, if focused specifically on verified violent plans or acts, could be an effective policy for dealing with violent behavior and preventing some violence before it occurs.…

    • 1101 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    My mom thought it was unfair to let Auggie into the private school because he didn’t have to take a test. My mom talked to other moms, who agreed with her. I started something where if we touched Auggie then it would be the like cheese touch and you had to wash your hands immediately. I started calling Auggie a freak and then everyone else did. I started making really mean notes and putting them in Auggie’s and Julian’s locker.…

    • 277 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When the dismissal bell rang we all started walking to the bus of course the white students were waiting on the field for us. I think they were in utter shock we were not running I was approached by a female white student who wanted to engage me in a physical altercation I made it explicitly clear to her I did not want to engage her in a fight. She threw a punch and therefore, I had to protect myself a serious physical altercation ensued. Once we were separated, she was bleeding profusely from her mouth and I suffered cuts to my knuckles. When I arrived home my parents and grandparents were fully knowledgeable of the physical altercation.…

    • 675 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    "Enlightenment is not a change into something better or more, but a simple recognition or who we truly are" (youhavechosentoremember.com). Today, realization shapes my true identity. In the beginning, I did not know who I was and what I could accomplish, always thinking it was "good enough". If I would have been less ignorant, I would realize that "good enough" blocked my excellency. Significant events in my past altered my morals and shaped the habits I hold today.…

    • 634 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Have you ever felt so nervous and scared at the same time that you wanted to pee in your pants? Well, that’s exactly what i felt during P.E class on Monday morning. Everything was fine until we started playing Dodgeball. My friend Avery and I were having a great time laughing, talking and playing. Suddenly a ball came and knocked Avery down.…

    • 414 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Bullying is a controversial issue, whether it may be from discrimination or any form of harassment. Bullying, discrimination, harassment and many more like cases occurs quite often through various ways. Many times it occurs in public and other times it occurs where no one can see but you and that other person. Whatever way it happens; it happens and few that have against it. People don’t realize the harm of such actions and if they do they don’t show signs that they care until something happens.…

    • 783 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The world of normative ethics took hold of me during my high school career. It came out of nowhere, an interest I never would have expected myself to have, but by my senior year it was one of my favorite subjects to independently explore. My interest in normative ethics began during my freshman year of high school. When I entered high school, I lacked a particular interest in an academic or extracurricular activity. I had taken part in some speech competitions and debates during middle school and so I was interested in continuing to participate in that sort of extracurricular activity during high school.…

    • 598 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout my duration in high school, I have made a massive effort to be involved in any way possible. I have been a part of the Freshmen, Junior Varsity, and Varsity Cheerleading squads, which have helped organize many different community events such as pep rallies, parades, and car washes. I have also been involved in Kiwanis Club International, Interact Club, and Blue Eagle Ambassadors, which sponsor activities around the community including promoting reading in elementary schools and highway cleanups. I am very involved in the arts in my school and am a part of my school's Concert Choir and Theatre Troop, which perform once every fall and spring. I am also in an all-girls choir referred to as Nightingales, as well as Nazareth’s award-winning,…

    • 420 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Yo future me have have you moved out of hampton yet or are you still there if you are how is hampton I’m dieing to know how the future is have we colonized other worlds yet please tell me yes. Okay you can already know what is going to happen so let’s cut to it “life in 8th grade” it’s pretty boring to honest but I can’t to be in high school next year and you know that. Mainly I hope that this year will go a lot better then this year and maybe I can do something about the problem I can only dream of that day.…

    • 379 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    On Friday afternoon I was still in school almost about to leave, when I decided to mess with some girls. When I saw my name on the board to leave, I decided to grab three girls on their butts before I left. When I got back on Monday, I heard that I didn't get in trouble. Then Mr. Crooke brought me to his room, and I discovered I was in deep trouble with him and my parents. I was suspended for a week.…

    • 522 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The school bell rung to end the day. While I walked down the long and crowded hallway a Caucasian female was beside me with her friends. They started to quietly talk and then suddenly she pulled the fire alarm. A teacher walked out of class and she came over to me. She took me to the office and blamed me for pulling the fire alarm in a non-emergency reason.…

    • 767 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Racial Bullying at Schools When I Think About Bullying I get a quote from Martin Luther King, "I have a fantasy that my four little youngsters would one day live in a country where they won 't be judged by the shade of their skin, yet by the substance of their character.” So once in a while I ask why still in the twenty-first century in a nation where as far as anyone knows there is fairness of human rights. This is affirmed by the beliefs of the originators of this awesome country and laws against racial Bullying in which we still, unfortunately, observe lamentable cases like suicides, shootings for that cause. Bullying is one of the more basic and developing emergency that schools are confronting in present days however society don 't see their belongings until understudies go into physical and passionate injuries that prompts to the individual whose is liable to submit self-destructive, shooting, and so forth.…

    • 1033 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Bully: A Short Story

    • 787 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Imagine trying to scream but no sound is coming out. Or the feeling of screaming loud but people do not know somebody is there. In a small town school that is exactly how a group of girls felt. They had been taking the ignominious tormenting of a bully for far too long.…

    • 787 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays