REVIEW 'Lockdown High:' When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse

[Annette] Fuentes Navigates Readers Through Terrorism Classifications and Prison Surveillance Norms in US Schools

"School violence has fallen steadlily for twenty years. Yet in schools throughout the United States, [author] 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." 

 "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.

Read more : http://voices.yahoo.com/lockdown-high-schoolhouse-becomes-jailhouse-12025352.html

REDUX: NISD creates video surveillance bid on Texas elementaries

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c/o San Antonio Business Insider

Northside Independent School District is taking bids on a $20 million project to put video surveillance and security upgrades in elementary schools. The bond-funded project is expected to take about two years to complete.  

The project calls for integrated security management systems to be installed in 74 schools across the district. 

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DIY Government ACTION ALERT :   Please write your local and federal Congressional Leaders to let them know what you think of State surveillance increases in public funded schools (RFID, CCTV, education & surveillance standards, higher learning, K-12 etc.)   You can make an impact on a national trend of distressing child privacy.

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