There’s good news today for 6-year-old Zachary Christie, the first grader who was suspended and ordered to go to a school for juvenile delinquents after he brought a camping tool with his lunch. The Christina, Del., school board revised its rules so that school officials will be allowed to exempt kindergarteners and first graders from some of the district’s zero-tolerance rules, and Zachary will be allowed to go back to his elementary school. But a larger problem still looms for the district, school board member John M. Young says in today’s New York Times story: “‘We are doing this because we got egg on our face, but it doesn’t address the underlying issues with zero-tolerance rules,’ said Young, who opposed the original decision to send Zachary to the district’s reform program. ‘What if next time the case involves a second grader? That student will run into the same exact problems that Zachary did.’” Read this story and more in today’s edition of School Board News Today.
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