New Jersey Department of Child Protection and Permanency and Department of Children and Families

‘Zero tolerance’ is being taken to its most ridiculous extreme here. And to me it sounds like more bureaucratic nonsense from a state agency that tends to overreact. The Vernon father of 13 year old Ethan Chaplin - who was suspended from school for twirling a pencil last April made to look like a gun - can now face being taken away from his father, Michael...