Fuentes Annette - Lockdown High When The Schoolhouse Becomes A Jailhouse - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: School violence has fallen steadily for twenty years. Yet in schools throughout the United States Annette Fuentes finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin police profiling of students with no records arbitrary expulsions armed teachers increased policing and all - seeing electronic surveillance. This climate of fear has permitted 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. Fuentes's 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.
Title: Lockdown High When The Schoolhouse Becomes A Jailhouse
Author(s): Fuentes Annette
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844674077
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 2/12/2013
Category: Education: Care & Counselling Of Students