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From Zero Tolerance to a Culture of Care.

2005· article· en· W171612773 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueEducation Canada · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation Discipline and Inequality
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsZero toleranceHarassmentAffectionPopular cultureRetributive justicePsychologySociologyLawCriminologySocial psychologyMedia studiesPolitical scienceEconomic Justice
DOInot available

Abstract

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ist phoned me, asking for my reaction to a story about a kindergarten child in Ontario facing expulsion for hugging and kissing some of his classmates.1 Apparently the parents of the children at the receiving end of his affection were not complaining, but the behaviour was seen as contravening the Ontario Safe Schools Act – protecting children from sexual harassment. Zero tolerance in action! I responded that if the story was accurate, it was an example of “a system gone berserk.” Policies of this sort counteract what we hope to cultivate in schools: caring for one another, applauding differences, and creating community. Zero tolerance policies stem from the culture of fear that pervades many schools today – fear of violence, bullying, and unruly behaviour. The code of conduct is clearly spelled out and if students disobey, the retribution is swift – usually suspension or expulsion. The rules are designed to apply equally to everyone, irrespective of age, gender, cultural background, personal characteristics, parental influence, or school experiences. Under the guise of “equity,” zero tolerance policies are, in fact, inequitable, inhospitable and discriminatory. They contravene what we hold dear as educators and as a society. Further, they are ineffective on a number of fronts. I find the concept of zero tolerance oddly out of place in a public school system and jarring to my sensibilities as an educator. It is much more suited to the culture from which it came – the U.S. military, where conformity and control are paramount. The fact that it found its way into the school

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.102
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.348
Teacher spread0.334 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it