Criminalizing Childhood: School Safety Measures Aren’t Making the Schools Any Safer

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/criminalizing_childhood_school_safety_measures_arent_making_the_schools_any_safer

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased policing to all-seeing electronic surveillance, the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society that has become fixated on crime, security and violence.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes