All but one of the seven Decatur high school students whose expulsion for fighting spawned a national controversy over school zero-tolerance policies finally went back to class Thursday, although not the ones that Rev. Jesse Jackson wants them to attend. But as a “show of good faith,” Jackson brought the teens to a regional alternative school to begin the process of enrolling them in special classes for disciplinary problems. The seventh teen has left the state. Diane Doty, a parent of a 15-year-old boy who was not involved in the Eisenhower High School controversy, was furious that her son had been waiting five months to get into the program while the students whose cause Jackson has championed were admitted immediately. Jackson told her that he would stand with her in her fight to get her son enrolled.
