100% in Support of Zero Tolerance
“Congratulations, bravo, bless you and thank you” to the administrators of zero tolerance at Estancia High School in particular, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District in general and Supt. of Schools Mac Bernd’s stand on young people taking responsibility for their actions (“Finding Middle Ground With Zero Tolerance,” Nov. 24).
The job of enforcing this policy must be totally thankless and extremely difficult at best in this era of permissive parenting. How ironic that the first challenge comes from a Municipal Court judge, of all people.
My confidence in our legal system hit an all-time low with Judge Michael McCartin’s court action on his daughter’s behalf. To the mother, a schoolteacher yet, I say I am appalled at her logic as regards to our “eccentric world” and the punishment employed as not “age appropriate.” Sadly, the death of her friend’s son due to a teenage drunk driver was most certainly not “age appropriate.”
NANCY B. WILLIAMSON
Fullerton
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