Growing up decades ago, my dad had this to say--schoolyard bullies and fights happened, and worst case parents were brought in or kids sent home. Sometimes, the gym coach would just drag the kids over and give them gloves and let them go at it. This was at a public school.
Currently, zero-tolerance policies have removed a long-standing safety-valve for this kind of torment. As a result, we see things like this, like Columbine, like many other things--and feed the school to prison pipeline.
>'Currently, zero-tolerance policies have removed a long-standing safety-valve for this kind of torment.'
Absolutely.
It feels to me like forgotten wisdom that unfortunately can't be taught after the fact.
If a person has grown up in a way that they didn't just fail to realize the utility of that valve but learned to fear and despise it there's very little chance of changing that.
We've traded the annoying whistle and an occasional blast of scalding steam for some percentage of kettles that simply explode with no notice.
Currently, zero-tolerance policies have removed a long-standing safety-valve for this kind of torment. As a result, we see things like this, like Columbine, like many other things--and feed the school to prison pipeline.