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Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse Paperback – February 12, 2013

by Annette Fuentes (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
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School violence has fallen steadily for twenty years. Yet in schools throughout the United States, 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.

This climate of fear has permitted the imposition of unprecedented restrictions on young people’s rights, dignity, and educational freedoms. In what many call the school-to-prison pipeline, the policing and practices of the juvenile justice system increasingly infiltrate the schoolhouse. These “zero tolerance” measures push the most vulnerable and academically needy students out of the classroom and into harm’s way.

Fuentes’s moving stories will astonish and anger readers, as she makes the case that the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society with an unhealthy fixation on crime, security and violence.
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  5. ISBN-10
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“Lockdown High should be required reading for every school board member, administrator or parent worried about school safety.”—Jennifer Hemmingsen, The Gazette

“Examples of zero-tolerance policies taken to absurd levels are attention-grabbing, but the real story, spelled out with clarity and a touch of anger, is a disturbing one that should concern members of school boards, principals, teachers and parents.”—Kirkus Reviews

“A well-argued book ... packed with the anecdotally eye-catching and hard, persuasive data. Fuentes’ detailed and daunting investigation ... is a wakeup call.”—Publishers Weekly

“[The] penetration of prison culture into daily life and particularly schools has been brilliantly traced by US writer Annette Fuentes in Lockdown High”—Guardian

“[A] chilling report ... extremely well-written.”—Library Journal

“Lockdown High is a wake up call for Americans who care about how schools treat children and young people ... This book is a must read for school boards, school administrators and parents.”—Rodney Skager

“Fuentes’ style is smart and accessible, her material both revelatory and relevant—it’s not only parents who will stay up late reading Lockdown High, but anyone interested in where we are headed.”—Nell Bernstein

“Lockdown High is a widely accessible overview of the trends in school discipline, surveillance, and policing. As such, Fuentes brings research in the education world to a broad audience and thereby widens the awareness of and potential resistance to the lockdown model.”—Rachel Garver, Teachers College Record

“A sweeping new book ... describing how the schoolhouse has become a jailhouse and fear prevails.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“‘Zero tolerance’ policies were originally written for the war on drugs and later applied to schools. As Annette Fuentes explains, the resulting extraordinary rates of suspension and expulsion are linked nationally to increasing police presence, checkpoints, and surveillance inside schools.”—Rethinking Schools

“Visiting schools across the country, investigative journalist Annette Fuentes ... sheds light on trends shaping the future of American education.”—Book News

“Illuminating”—The Washington Examiner

“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. Fuentes provides an important history of the events following Columbine; which led the US government to reach for vanity policies and apply appropriation veneers to school safety grievances.”—Yahoo Voices

“Despite a growing body of damning research by civil libertarians of the left and the right, including Annette Fuentes’s excellent book Lockdown High, political opposition to the school-to-prison pipeline has proven feeble or nonexistent.”—Chase Mader, The Nation

About the Author

Annette Fuentes is a freelance writer and reporter. She was a founding online editor of a nonprofit internet news organization, The Bay Citizen, from 2010 to 2011 and prior to that, the managing editor of New American Media, and a reporter for the New York Daily News and New York Newsday. She has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and has written for, among others publications, the New York Times, The Progressive, and USA Today. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verso Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 12, 2013
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 184467407X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1844674077
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 0.6 x 9.25 inches
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Annette Fuentes is an award-winning journalist who has covered education, health care, politics and social issues as an editor and reporter for magazines, newspapers and television. From 1998 to 2006, she taught news reporting at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. A transplanted New Yorker, she now resides in the San Francisco-Bay Area.

"Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse," is her second title. She is co-author of "Women in the Global Factory" with Barbara Ehrenreich (South End Press).

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  • Randall H. Gaylor
    5.0 out of 5 stars On Education as a Prison ...
    Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2013
    Format: Hardcover
    This book reflects a truism about our schools.
    Having taught for almost 40 years, I have heard an absolute drum beat about how no one could work with teenagers. They have been vilified to the maximum. And even educators, those who should know better, stigmatize the very students they should be teaching. This book is disturbing, or at least should be ... but it is also spot on. Our society despises what it is not ... and it is not teenagers (or Iraqi, or Afghani, or Latin American, or native American, or ... ).
    My experience though is not what is the common story ... the daily narrative ... it is a different experience altogether. Sure there is a less than 1% who are real troublemakers ... who are in fact lawless. But (and I spent a number of years working with the 'night school' kids ... the ones hovering on being discarded by the schools (including their teachers) and society) my experience is that so long as teens are respected, teens are willing to actually comply. So long as rules seem to make sense, teens are more than willing to do what they are asked, and so long as an effort is made to make things interesting, kids are willing to learn. Bore them, and you will have trouble; treat them as inferior, and they will not respect you nor the school you work in/for; follow insanely restrictive policies, and they will rebel. Think about it ... the last time you were cut off in traffic ... was it a teen? The last time you saw blatant rudeness, was it a teen?
    Probably not ... but lock them down, treat them as inferior creatures, disrespect them, and they will react the same way you do.
    Our solution for schools, as this book documents, is to impose restrictive controls, to attempt to monitor any and every thing ... the NSA does it ... the schools do it.
    Am I surprised?
    No ... what I am is saddened. I used to believe that America was a city on the hill, a light to the world. It is not ... it is cold, rapacious, and often evil society ... not founded on the rhetoric of democracy we have been taught ... but rather of a greedy, selfish, cruel, and ultimately vicious society. As we treat our kids, they treat the world. It isn't that the schools, highly vilified, didn't do their job ... they did. They produced a bunch of psychopaths ... a population convinced of the moral superiority, and doing the morally repugnant.
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  • DORMANE WIMBUSH
    4.0 out of 5 stars GOOD BOOK
    Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2011
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    VERY GOOD BOOK. It takes you in and out of stories. But i would recommend this book to read it you are concern about violence in our school.
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  • S. Nicoletti
    1.0 out of 5 stars Hype
    Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2011
    Format: Hardcover
    Rarely have I ever read a book so full of slanderous, opinions that the author states are facts, about people, events, circumstance and the state of American schools. This book is not only a waste of time but could easily hurt our children by making parents believe our children are safe when they are not.
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  • D.L. Williams
    5.0 out of 5 stars I was a violent crimes detective for over a decade ...
    Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2017
    Format: Paperback
    I was a violent crimes detective for over a decade and a school resource officer for two years. I referenced Lockdown High while writing my master's thesis on the subject of preventing school shootings, and I contend it should be required reading for any officer assigned to work in schools. We all want safe schools, but we also want schools that are welcoming and that foster a positive learning environment. Fuentes offers a path to balance those needs, and parents, teachers, officers, school administrators, and students would benefit from her insights.
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  • James K. Steen
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2015
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    ok book
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  • Marcela Landres
    4.0 out of 5 stars Well-researched debunking of stereotypes
    Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2011
    Format: Hardcover
    Well-researched debunking of the stereotypes surrounding schools and violence. Intelligent and important contribution to the national discussion of how to handle violence in our educational system.
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  • Laura Rolen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2012
    Format: Hardcover
    Annette Fuentes combines common sense, solid reasoning, and empirical research to support her premises. Her writing style is scholarly yet easy to read and comprehend. The book is both entertaining and informative. Every school official, law enforcement officer, and parent should read Lockdown High and advocate for implementation of the common-sense policies Fuentes promotes. Lockdown High helps dispel much of the misinformation and hysteria in our culture regarding school violence.
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