An excellent essay by John W. Whitehead, civil rights attorney & head of the Rutherford Institute: Compliance 101: Gun-toting cops endanger students, turn schools into prisons “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.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes Just when you thought the government couldn’t get any more tone-deaf about civil liberties and the growing need to protect “we the people” against an overreaching, overbearing police state, the Trump Administration ushers in even more strident zero tolerance policies that treat children like suspects and criminals, greater numbers of school cops, and all the trappings of a prison complex (unsurmountable fences, entrapment ... Continue reading... https://augustafreepress.com/compli...-endanger-students-turn-schools-into-prisons/
Gun-Toting Cops Endanger Students and Turn Schools into Prisons his teacher reported him to school administrators, who in turn called the police. What followed is par for the course in schools today: students were locked down in their classrooms while armed police ... Continue reading... https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/25/gun-toting-cops-endanger-students-and-turn-the-schools-into-prisons/