Expelled- No Excuses- No Exceptions- Michigan's Zero-Tolerance Policy in Response to School Violence: M.C.L.A. Section 380.1311
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Exceptions. - Michigan's Zero-
Tolerance Policy in Response to School
Violence: M.C.L.A. Section 380.1311
Incidents involving the use and presence of weapons in schools,
and consequently permanent expulsions from school under Michigan
law, have increasingly been reported across the state.' A Fraser
seventh-grade student... was expelled... Monday night for handling
a .32 caliber semiautomatic gun during an incident last month.2 A
15-year-old was expelled... after being caught with a box cutter-type
knife at Sexton High School. [The student] said she took the knife
from a classmate and cut her with it during a fight at school.3 A 15-
year-old [student] was expelled for taking the gun of his father, a
Lansing Police Sergeant, to school to show his friends.4
Three boys, horseplay and a smuggled handgun led to Detroit's
first school shooting of [1996] Wednesday, putting a 15-year-old
Northern High School student in the hospital in critical condition.5
Gang violence and security measures that failed to keep a weapon out
of school.., led to... [a] fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old Denby High
School sophomore.6
I. INTRODUCTION
Public schools across the country are plagued with school-related
crime and violence. This should come as no surprise. In 1978, the
compilation of the Safe School Study Report, presented to the United
1. Gun-Free School Law Gets a Mixed Reaction, CHI. TRIB., Oct. 14, 1994, at 3.
(Governor Engler's comments, made when signing the bill into law on October 12,
1994 which mandated the expulsion of any pupil who brings a weapon onto school
property).
2. Dave Dye, 2 Students are Expelled after Weapons Incidents, DET. NEWS, Apr. 12,
1995, at 8B.
3. Mark Andrejevic, Expulsion Not Whole Answer, LANSING ST. J., Mar. 28, 1995,
at 2A
4. Mark Andrejevic, Expelled Students in Limbo, LANSING ST. J., Mar. 27, 1995, at
1A.
5. Blair A. Robertson, 2 Teens Hurt in Shootings at Detroit, Holly Schools, DET. FREE
PRESS, Jan. 25, 1996, at 5B.
6. Joan Richardson, Gang's Tough Talk Turns Deadly, DET. FREE PRESS, Jan. 31,
1996, at IA.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/udetmr74&div=22&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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