The US schools with their own police
"Zero tolerance started out as a term that was used in combating drug trafficking and it became a term that is now used widely when you're referring to some very punitive school discipline measures. Those two policy worlds became conflated with each other," said Fowler.
Each day, hundreds of schoolchildren appear before courts in Texas charged with offences such as swearing, misbehaving on the school bus or getting in to a punch-up in the playground.
Children have been arrested for possessing cigarettes, wearing "inappropriate" clothes and being late for school.
The US is the only developed country to lock up children as young as 13 for life without the possibility of parole, often as accomplices to murders committed by an adult.
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