Love after lockdown9/22/2023 Fuentes provides an important history of the events following Columbine which led the US government to reach for vanity policies and apply appropriation veneers to school safety grievances. ![]() Lockdown High, released by Verso (2011), makes highly recommended reading at a time where extreme polices are being evaluated along with moderate approaches in light of the Newtown, CT school shootings. sheds light on trends shaping the future of American education. Visiting schools across the country, investigative journalist Annette Fuentes. As Annette Fuentes explains, the resulting extraordinary rates of suspension and expulsion are linked nationally to increasing police presence, checkpoints, and surveillance inside schools. ‘Zero tolerance’ policies were originally written for the war on drugs and later applied to schools. ![]() describing how the schoolhouse has become a jailhouse and fear prevails. As such, Fuentes brings research in the education world to a broad audience and thereby widens the awareness of and potential resistance to the lockdown model. Lockdown High is a widely accessible overview of the trends in school discipline, surveillance, and policing. Rodney Skagerįuentes’ style is smart and accessible, her material both revelatory and relevant-it’s not only parents who will stay up late reading Lockdown High, but anyone interested in where we are headed. This book is a must read for school boards, school administrators and parents. Lockdown High is a wake up call for Americans who care about how schools treat children and young people. penetration of prison culture into daily life and particularly schools has been brilliantly traced by US writer Annette Fuentes in Lockdown High Guardian ![]() Fuentes’ detailed and daunting investigation. packed with the anecdotally eye-catching and hard, persuasive data. Jennifer Hemmingsen,Įxamples 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. Lockdown High should be required reading for every school board member, administrator or parent worried about school safety.
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