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ASSUMPTION #5: Parents overwhelmingly support the implementation of zero tolerance policies to ensure the safety of schools, and students feel safer knowing that transgressions will be dealt with in no uncertain terms.

5 Myths about zero-tolerance disciplinary policies 2011

ASSUMPTION #1: School violence is at a crisis level and increasing, thus necessitating forceful, no-nonsense strategies for violence prevention.

5 Myths about zero-tolerance disciplinary policies 2011

ASSUMPTION #4: The swift and certain punishments of zero tolerance have a deterrent effect upon students, thus improving overall student behavior and discipline.

5 Myths about zero-tolerance disciplinary policies 2011

ASSUMPTION #2: Through the provision of mandated punishment for certain offenses, zero tolerance increases the consistency of school discipline and thereby the clarity of the disciplinary message to students.

5 Myths about zero-tolerance disciplinary policies 2011

The ASSUMPTION that the climate science based on the data is correct.

Open Climate Science or Denial of Service attacks? | Serendipity 2009

ASSUMPTION #3: Removal of students who violate school rules will create a school climate more conducive to learning for those students who remain.

5 Myths about zero-tolerance disciplinary policies 2011

Bobby, all of your arguments as based on the ASSUMPTION that there MAY be significant photonic bounceback, that said bounceback, if any, is significantly worse than the reflections off the sand the light would hit anyway, that any bounceback would propagate all the way back up out of the atmosphere, and that we need to cover “thousands” of square miles with solar cells.

Measuring Solar’s Total Impact 2008

That is the biggest and probably most false ASSUMPTION everyone (especially companies) makes about piracy -- do you think that * evey single person* who downloads an app for free would actually pay for it?

Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds. 2009

ASSUMPTION - This Is the "Last Chance" to Pass Health Care for a Generation: This is one of the key rationales being cited by the those who want to immediately pass the Lieberman-gutted legislation.

David Sirota: The Three Assumptions Driving the Push to Pass the Insurance/Drug Industry Health Bill 2009

ASSUMPTION - We Need 60 Votes to Pass Anything: Again, just not true, even though it's been said over and over and over again.

David Sirota: The Three Assumptions Driving the Push to Pass the Insurance/Drug Industry Health Bill 2009