Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 184467407X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Great Book!" according to Laura Rolen. Annette Fuentes combines common sense, solid reasoning, and empirical research to support her premises. Her writing style is scholarly yet easy to read and comprehend. The book is both entertaining and informative. Every school official, law enforcement officer, and parent should read Lockdown High and advocate for implementation of the common-sense policies Fuentes promotes. Lockdown High helps dispel much of the misinformation and hysteria in our culture regarding school violence.. On Education as a Prison Randall H. Gaylor This book reflects a truism about our schools.Having taught for almost 40 years, I have heard an absolute drum beat about how no one could work with teenagers. They have been vilified to the maximum. And even educators, those who should know better, stigmatize the very students they should be teaching. This book is disturbing, or at least should be but it is also spot on. Our society despises what it is not and it is not teenagers (or Iraqi, or Afghani, or Latin American, or native American, or ).My experience though is not what is the common story the daily narrative it is a different experience altogether. Sure there is a. "Well-researched debunking of stereotypes" according to Marcela Landres. Well-researched debunking of the stereotypes surrounding schools and violence. Intelligent and important contribution to the national discussion of how to handle violence in our educational system.
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 lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has taught at Columbia U
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. These “zero tolerance” measures push the most vulnerable and academically needy students out of the classroom and into harm’s way.Fuentes’s moving stor
“Lockdown High should be required reading for every school board member, administrator or parent worried about school safety.”—Jennifer Hemmingsen, The Gazette“Examples of zero-tolerance policies taken to absurd levels are attention-grabbing, but the real story, spelled out with clarity and a touch of anger, is a disturbing one that should concern members of school boards, principals, teachers and parents.”—Kirkus Reviews“A well-argued book packed with the anecdotally eye-catching and hard, persuasive data. As Annette Fuentes explains, the resulting extraordinary rates of