Here’s yet another good article on the insane stupidity of zero-tolerance policies.

Between this, and the recent stories about the abysmal (and I believe deliberately-planned) ignorance of history among students, the state of our public school system is absolutely frightening. I see it as fundamentally conceptually flawed, and beyond any hope of reform.

Yet another reason for disappointment in Bush. I can only hope that the current federal education nonsense is a maneuver to set the stage for reversing things in a second term, but I see little reason to hope.