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Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
- Item Number
- NVPR-1738
- Estimated Value
- 27 USD
- Sold
- 8 USD to hdovick
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
[Hardcover] By: Annette Fuentes -- A riveting report on the overblown fear of violence that turns American schools into prisons and students into suspects.In the dozen years since the shootings at Columbine High School, hysteria has distorted the medias coverage of school violence and American schools responses to it. School violence has actually been falling steadily throughout the last decade, and yet schools across the country have never been more preoccupied with security. This climate of fear has created ripe conditions for the imposition of unprecedented restrictions on young peoples rights, dignity, and educational freedoms. In what many call the school-to-prison pipeline, the policing and practices of the juvenile justice system increasingly infiltrate the schoolhouse. These Zero tolerance measures push the most vulnerable and academically needy students out of the classroom and into harms way. Investigative reporter Annette Fuentes visits schools across America and finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, teachers carrying guns, increased policing, and all-seeing electronic surveillance. She also reveals the many industries and experts who have vested interests in perpetuating the Lockdown High model. Her moving stories will astonish and anger readers,as she makes the case that the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society with an unhealthy fixation on crime, security and violence.
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