Opinion Article

As I was looking around for an article to use for my opinion piece, I had a hard time finding something that interested me and caught my attention. All I could find were political, religious, and other articles that simply bore me. I wanted something that I could relate to, something that caught my eye, or something that I strongly agreed or didn’t agree on. After searching through many sites, magazines, and newspapers, I finally found an article that I liked and that I wanted to write about. The article that I chose is about the zero tolerance rule. This rule makes it so that when students bring violent items to school or commit violent acts at school get into a lot of trouble, usually expulsion or suspensions. The article explains how sometimes the rule can go too far and in some cases be used for the wrong reason. The article also tells about a young boy getting suspended because he brought a camping utensil to school in which he wanted to eat his lunch. He didn’t intend on using it in a violent way – he was only in first grade. Because of this, however, he was suspended for 45 days and was to attend a reform school in his district. This article caught my attention because I am interested in education and I love helping and being around children. It had strong arguments and opinions that I agreed with. The article used a lot of logos and ethos to catch the reader’s attention and made it worth reading.