Arresting: A girl in class for falling asleep. Normal kid behavior becomes a

A major contributing factor to this crisis is the failed “zero tolerance” discipline program promoted by the Bush administration and still in force in school systems throughout the country.  Like its abstinence-only sex ed program, Bush policies made a serious issue worse.  The effort to enforce classroom discipline through the expulsion and punishment of students is an example of the moral absolutism propagated during much of the last few decades. It further extends the “school-to-prison pipeline” by aggressively incarcerating ever-younger children, particularly African-American and Hispanic youth.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/arresting-teen-girl-dozing-class-why-normal-kid-behavior-treated-crime-or?paging=off