Eric H. Holder's Film Unraveling Zero Tolerance

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In the 1980’s and through the 1990’s crime rates were beginning to rise and schools began to crack down on violence, disorder, and weapons in the classroom. There was a term used to justify the punishments given to children who were misbehaving, Zero Tolerance, the official definition being the refusal to accept undesirable misbehavior, typically by strict and uncompromising application of the law. Retro Report is a website that publishes documentaries on major new events and shares them to a digital audience. On October 2nd, 2016 they released a video describing the Zero Tolerance policy in depth and depicting the impact it had on schools where the policy was enforced. There were witnesses to the effect of Zero Tolerance speaking in the video, speaking against the policy and how it had an overall negative outcome. Muckraking does still exist in film as demonstrated by Retro Report’s documentary, Unraveling Zero Tolerance, a video that examined the effect of the zero tolerance policy on students in school.

Eric H. Holder, former attorney general, spoke in the video, construing the difference between the handling of misbehavior in the 1980’s and present day. Jeremy Hudson, a highschool dropout, explained how his life was after hes was affected by the Zero …show more content…

Eric Holder and Jeremy Hudson are both muckrakers who helped form a better, safer way for kids to learn by speaking to the public through a documentary. They shed some light on the bad points of the Zero Tolerance policy and helped out a lot of kids who got in trouble at school. Without the muckrakers that helped them, these kids would have to deal with very severe punishment that they might not have deserved. Now kids weren't getting expelled left and right, and they still had an opportunity for a bright

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