Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse

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.

Author: Annette Fuentes
Publisher: Verso
Published: 02/12/2013
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781844674077
ISBN10: 184467407X
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform | School Safety
- Education | Schools | Levels | Secondary
- Education | Administration | General

About the Author
Annette Fuentes is a freelance writer and reporter. She was a founding online editor of a nonprofit internet news organization, The Bay Citizen, from 2010 to 2011 and prior to that, the managing editor of New American Media, and a reporter for the New York Daily News and New York Newsday. She has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and has written for, among others publications, the New York Times, The Progressive, and USA Today. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.