They're grooming the future sheeple of this world to roll over and give up their rights.

From a personal perspective regarding the lack of due process for kids in schools; when my kids were in high school, I made sure the school had notice that I was to be present for any type of questioning of any of my children. The high school actually adhered to it, even the guidance counselors would call me when they wanted to talk to one of my kids. Parents should never allow their children to be questioned without being there. Another thing, if the school wants a written statement about an incident, don't do it. Working in the legal field has taught me, do not create a paper trail that can come back to bite you. It is a rarity that a school administrator has your child's best interest at heart. That's what zero tolerance policies have taught me.

So children of parents with brains will fight, and help educate their children to grow and become responsible aware citizens. However, we do need a good number of these measures to protect our children from the spawn of the Least Common Denomoninators - you know who they are; parents that cant bother to show up on conference nights, that don't make sure their kids leave the house dressed appropriately (I am in the northeast -imagine shorts and no jacket in January). There is a whole subsection of society that thinks it is the job of the school to raise their kids. Those kinds of parents are a danger, and their kids aren't any better.They need lockdown and I can tell my kid to suck it up, keep your nose clean and work hard. The real world starts in college, but you have to play their game for now to get there.

This is one of the primary reasons I look forward to the next plague.

All government policies are "zero tolerance". The rules are created and everyone must follow them. This comes from the fallacy that there is a perfect written rule in the universe for all administrative situations. It is only a matter of adding to the rules, including more situations and exceptions, over a long time, until the 1,000 page rule covers everything.

If you let people use their judgment, then what have you got? Something, but not a Government of the Social Welfare.

In the meantime, a few (or many) cases on the edges will be handled badly, even horribly. Oh, well. A few eggs have to be wasted when you are making an omelette out of the millions. (sarcasm)

Classificationism
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[edited] But we have a system now dominated by legislation, by statutory law. The Roman law was codified legislatively by Napoleon and others, resulting at first in elegant civil codes enacted by legislation and backed by the force of the state. This enshrined legislation as the supreme source of legal positivism. These are the continental legal systems, the so-called civil law.

In the meantime even the relatively elegant civil codes have been swamped by a deluge of inelegant, artificial, and special interest legislation. The English common law has also been gradually submerged in a flood of state and federal statutes.

In any particular case at common law, what is the true rule? It is the rule most in accord with justice and sound policy. The search is for that rule. The appeal is squarely made to the highest considerations of morality and justice. These are the rallying points of the struggle, which is ennobling and beneficial to the advocates, to the judges, to the parties, to the auditors, and so indirectly to the whole community. The decision then made records another step in the advance of human reason towards that perfection after which it forever aspires.

But, when the law is conceded to be written down in a statute, the only question is what the statute means. This search is unspeakably inferior to common law. The dispute is about words. The question of what is right or wrong, just or unjust, is irrelevant and out of place. The only question is what has been written. What a wretched substitue for the manly search for the right principle!
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> sara at January 21, 2012 6:31 AM

I don't have kids, don't want any and am too old to start...

But that was a GREAT blog comment. Thanks for stopping by.