Title: Zero-Tolerance is a cop-out
Product review: After is a novel about the extremes parents, teachers, schools and communities go to after an event like Columbine happens. For the children's safety, of course. And then it explores what happens when those measures go too far. Totally eery and chilling book. And as someone who escaped school just before the zero tolerance wave hit, but who is now trying to raise two very smart, willful, children in it, all I can say is - parents, we better start fighting back. Now.Zero tolerance is just an excuse for not thinking, and just a way of scapegoating kids when something totally inexplicable and horrible happens. But the kids aren't the problem, the system that failed them is.Teens will identify with this book and the feelings of always being watched and judged. Adults should read it and take its message to heart. We are not helping any children with our policies of fear and suspicion.
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