<p>Way too drastic.</p>
<p>Life is about learning from your mistakes. I believe that the one strike policy is a little too harsh because, in reality, people make mistakes all the time. If one does not learn from their mistake, then I believe the student should be punished based on the severity of their offense.</p>
<p>One strike policies are almost always moderated by the kind of strike it is. If you’re first offense is selling drugs, you’re toast. If it’s being at an off-campus party where drinking happened (and you didn’t drink), maybe you get a second shot.</p>
<p>As much as I see times where giving people a second chance is a good thing, I really hate to see places become less strict in reinforcing integrity issues. I’ve seen people get expelled from universities for cheating on insignificant tests, and I wholeheartedly agreed. If I can’t trust you to be honest on things with minimal impact, can I trust you when my life or your career are in the balance? Maybe it’s because I’m involved in aviation, and people have been killed because maintenance “pencil whipped” repairs to save verbal abuse from the boss or the crew neglected their inspections to save time. Certain things require faith that what a person says is actually so. Thus, any system that allows liars and cheats to get through risks catastrophic results.</p>
<p>I like L’ville’s system. Depending on the offence, the “discipline committee” meets and discusses what to do looking at the handbook. Dealing is a one time out, and usually, and use gets you a “major”, which, when receiving two of them, gets you dismissed.</p>
<p>^^^
Meaning you are dismissed the first time for dealing?</p>
<p>Does ANY BS tolerate dealing?</p>
<p>I’m not aware of any that do, but I’m sure there’s one somewhere.</p>
<p>HarvestMoon - Yeah, that’s what it means.</p>
<p>Yes, dealing is often a “one strike, and out” even at some of the more lenient schools. The problem with this, is that a lot of kids don’t get the definition of dealing. My son’s friend got kicked out senior year for dealing. My son was very upset,as he did not view the kid as a dealer. He happened to have come upon some pot source from a college kid in his neighborhood. Classmates wanted some too, so he bought for his friends as well as for self. One of them got caught, got the screws put to him and he told where he got it. So out the Dealer went for dealing. “He didn’t make any money from it”, is what my son wailed. Told him that the kid was a bad business man but was still dealing. Even “sharing” can be in the dealing category. At son’s school abetting any lowerclass men is a serious infraction and is nearly always given expulsion, but being caught for one time use, is not. </p>