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Dowling-Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 2001
In a case involving a knife in a car and a school's zero-tolerance policy, a circuit court decided it was unfair to expel a student for possessing a prohibited item if he did not know of its presence. Injury to another is impossible under those circumstances! (MLH)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Expulsion, High Schools, Prevention
