Zero Tolerance for Teens (US School / prisons)


I'm sure glad it wasn't like this when I was at school. This article paints a pretty grim picture of US Schools today. Of course, it is coming from the alternet.org so.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16305

By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet
July 1, 2003

High school students interviewed across the country are saying the same thing: "They're making schools like prisons." And it's not hard to see their point. Most U.S. high school students will have to walk by numerous hidden security cameras, outdoors and indoors, and go through an institutional-size metal detector manned by guards just to get into school each morning. Once there, students are subject to random searches of their bodies and belongings. Lockers can be searched without warning with or without the student present, and in many places police will use drug-sniffing dogs during raids where they search lockers and even students' parked cars.

Posted: Thu - July 3, 2003 at 09:14 PM            

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