Lockdown high: when the schoolhouse becomes a jailhouse

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Overview: 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 Columbine High School shootings, school violence has fallen steadily. Yet, as Annette Fuentes visits schools across America she finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, teachers carrying guns, and all-seeing electronic surveillance. Her moving stories will astonish readers, as she makes the case that our public schools reflect a society with an unhealthy fixation on crime and violence.  Read more... Abstract: A riveting report on the overblown fear of violence that turns American schools into prisons and students into suspects.  Read more... Content: Introduction -- Brief history of school violence -- We are Columbine -- Crime and punishment: the zero tolerance epidemic -- Supermax schoolhouse -- War on drugs goes to school -- Profiteers of Lockdown High -- Policing the schools, arresting development -- Busting out of Lockdown High: alternative paths to safe schools -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.