MCS is a school that believes in equality for everyone. Quality education is something that people often take for granted especially if they don’t know any one that has problems with their school. The way that many New York City schools and schools all over the country are being run is with zero tolerance policies. When we get into trouble at MCS, people will stop and talk to you and try to figure out what’s wrong why you did what you did. In schools were there are Zero Tolerance policies if you commit an infraction no matter the reason you there is already a set consequence. Students are being expelled for doing things that in the past a social worker would have dealt with. When children get suspended they are more likely to drop out and they will be at home were they could potentially get into more trouble. The other problem is that in schools where there are zero tolerance polices there are often also metal detectors. The metal detector in schools make the children feel criminalized in their school every day. When the schools have metal detector and police to deal with small infractions the school starts to feel more like a prison than a school. The police and metal detector don’t make people feel any safer they make them feel like criminals in a prison. After a while some kids start to think that if they are going to be treated like a criminal then they might as well act like one. MCS doesn’t have any police or metal detectors but we all still feel safe. We are a community and we all know each other so we really don’t have any fears as students of being harmed during school.
