alternatives to the zero-tolerance guidelines not because teachers or administrators or fellow students should have to put up with bad behavior but because there are ways to modify bad behavior that lead to good behavior. as opposed to bad behavior out of school. we can make classes good places for learning for everybody without jeopardizing a child s future. and by building on that work, we can keep more young men in the classroom, learning, growing, gaining the skills they need to succeed. four, we know that students of color are far more likely than their white classmates to find themselves in trouble with the law. if a student gels arrested, he s almost as kwikly to drop out of school. by making sure our criminal justice system doesn t just