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MLeake · January 4, 2013, 12:56 AM

stephen426, ALL my friends played variations on violent games. NONE turned into criminals, though several did go military or LE.

I repeat, many school boards, administrators, teachers, and parents are ninnies.

While there are exceptions, generally speaking involved parents make a lot more difference in a child's ultimate behavior than any zero tolerance policy ever will. And the teachers and administrators who earned my respect were certainly not policy driven automatons.

January 4, 2013, 12:56 AM	#21
MLeake Senior Member Join Date: November 15, 2007 Location: Outside KC, MO Posts: 10,128	stephen426, ALL my friends played variations on violent games. NONE turned into criminals, though several did go military or LE. I repeat, many school boards, administrators, teachers, and parents are ninnies. While there are exceptions, generally speaking involved parents make a lot more difference in a child's ultimate behavior than any zero tolerance policy ever will. And the teachers and administrators who earned my respect were certainly not policy driven automatons.