Many state legislators have decided to take on crime and other forms of delinquency in schools through zero tolerance policies. They believe that identifying and removing disruptive or poorly performing students will improve the overall quality of the school. What does this argument fail to address?

The argument assumes that removing disruptive or poorly performing students will improve schools, placing the blame on individual students. It fails to consider how school rules, resources, and other institutional conditions may contribute to delinquency or poor performance. This is a person-blame approach that ignores the role of institutions.

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