Benjamin Britton’s Reviews > Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse > Status Update
Benjamin Britton
is 59% done
“Still, even if the student-drug-testing crusaders no longer have a bully pulpit in the White House, their chief power and momentum has always been at the local level, in school districts and communities “ties, where the most potent policies of student discipline and school security are being forged.”
— Oct 04, 2016 09:50PM
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Benjamin Britton
is 85% done
“But for now, UpFront is a small but effective alternative to the well-funded and politically popular programs that leave young people misinformed and unprepared to make intelligent, healthy decisions in their lives.”
— Feb 24, 2017 08:26PM
Benjamin Britton
is 83% done
“One component of its [P.S.24] success has been the integration of what’s called social and emotional learning, which includes mediation and negotiation, communicating clearly and active listening, understanding and expressing feelings and valuing diversity to counter prejudice”
— Feb 19, 2017 07:20PM
Benjamin Britton
is 81% done
“But the failure of zero tolerance, reflected in the epidemic of students suspended and pushed out of schools, is becoming harder to ignore.”
— Feb 11, 2017 09:08AM
Benjamin Britton
is 80% done
“Maufas says accounts indicate that one of the new SROs called on her radio for backup with the code used for an “officer down” situation. The sheriff’s department had deputies in the area, and about thirty of them joined in, thinking that their fear of gang troubles had blown up,”
— Jan 10, 2017 05:00AM
Benjamin Britton
is 77% done
“Right now I’m looking at some kind of strategy long-term that might have an impact. Anything that would stem the flow of kids with disabilities into the juvenile justice system.”
— Jan 07, 2017 11:26AM
Benjamin Britton
is 70% done
“By helping to lay the legal, legislative and political infrastructure, these warriors have assisted the rise of a drug-testing industry in which they have clear financial interests, and provided the ideological cover for student drug testing.”
— Dec 31, 2016 02:00PM
Benjamin Britton
is 65% done
“As a private company, Interquest has an edge over drug-dog sweeps done by local police agencies, which are held to much stricter legal definitions of reasonable suspicion of drug or alcohol possession and unreasonable search.”
— Nov 27, 2016 09:49PM
Benjamin Britton
is 65% done
“As an adjunct to the criminal justice system, his product may be useful, but Measom cannot claim to have prevented any crimes in school. Indeed, the majority of sexual abuse and assaults of children occur in or near their homes—Jessica Lundsford was murdered by a neighbor.”
— Nov 25, 2016 10:26PM
Benjamin Britton
is 57% done
“Drug testing, he says, sets up an institutionalized system of suspicion”
— Oct 03, 2016 09:01PM
