Tolerance Essay

Texas schools are given the liberty of deciding their own rules and regulations. A zero-tolerance policy is strictly enforced throughout Texas schools. The policy states, “Under zero tolerance policies, harsh punishment applies regardless of the circumstance” (Gjelten). Flaws in the zero-tolerance policy cause serious issues like bullying and violence to continue. Texas schools need to replace the zero-tolerance policy with a more beneficial alternative such as restorative justice…

to be tolerant one one another, regardless of their skin color, religion, and beliefs. Tolerance can be describe many different ways. Three words that describe tolerance are open-mindedness, compassion, and understanding. The first word that describes tolerance is open-mindedness. Open-mindedness is defined as the willingness to listen and to consider other people's ideas and suggestions.This relates to tolerance because if you are able to keep an open mind about something such as same sex…

Austin Marquis Professor Covey English 100 CRN# 10212 16 October 2017 Fortitude Resilience, Willingness, Habits. These are all things that describe the word tolerance at least in the English language. Tolerance. This word that dates back to the 15th century it is used now as a politically correct; good to teach openness and sympathy that gives an excuse to hide the snobbery and rudeness, but there is still a connotation to the word when it is spoken whether it be negative or positive. With…

This study conducted by Charles R. Crow, Riley E. Hinson, and Shepard Sigel focused on conditioned tolerance to the hypothermic effects of alcohol in lab rats. Prior to this, research tested this conditioned tolerance to a few of moprhine’s effects and found that the environment where the rat receives the drug does in fact influence tolerance to drug effects. This current study conducted two separate experiments to gain insight into the importance of environmental stimuli in the conditioning…

Jasmine Gong Mrs.Hagen English 9 per.3 12 October 2015 Tolerance Demonstration As a person grows up, it automatically makes he or she become more mature by showing tolerance. Just like people will understand why their parents won’t let them play games before finishing their homework. To Kill a Mockingbird is written by Harper Lee. The main theme of this book is: It is a sin to kill a mockingbird. The mockingbirds are the symbols of the characters in the novel, it represents the racial…

to defend tolerance as a result of the mistakes from the different wars of religion. It is in this perspective that John Locke wrote his Letter on Tolerance, and I am going to try to analyse it. This Letter is part of the field of moral and political philosophy and its purpose is about religious tolerance. According to the Oxford dictionary, toleration is: ‘’The practice of tolerating something, in particular differences of opinion or behaviour’’.…

After completing the reading “Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out Overpoliced and Underprotected” it is clear that the theme is on punitive policies in public education. The structure of a “zero tolerance” school made some students feel unwanted and unsafe. It’s devastating to hear that some students had to choose between leaving school or staying long enough to get arrested. The purpose for the author writing this is to shed some light on the issue of girls of color struggling in schools, but their…

this area has with the Miami Gardens police department. As a matter of fact, it wasn’t till 2008 when I started noticing a change in the way police treated the customers and even the employees. This was around the time Saleh signed up for the zero tolerance program. None of us understood what the program was or why Saleh would sign…

anything that they feel needs to be said without disciplinary action being taken. Once the discussion has taken place and everything is talked about that needs to be and the students understand the harms of bullying I will then implement the zero tolerance…

The usage of Zero Tolerance policies in the school, in terms of bullying, drug offences, and brandishing or holding weapons on school property. Have been extremely unsatisfactory and outright terrible. The Zero Tolerance policy has been used since 1980s, when it was thought to be a great system, however, there has been no evidence supporting it being a great policy, or effectively minimizing violence and drug abuses. Zero Tolerance should not be a policy and that finding new avenues of…