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When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
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March 2011
On Sale: March 14, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 1844676811
EAN: 9781844676811
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Non-Fiction
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 media’s 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 people’s
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 harm’s 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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