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Kids Today Have It Hard. When I Was In Grade School, ‘Zero Tolerance’ Meant An Hour Of Detention.

Just for a refresher, I looked up the definition of “school.” Didn’t see anything in there about pushing kids into prison. Educating them, yes. Incarcerating them, no. So what’s with all these zero-tolerance policies, and why are they sending so many kids to jail?

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