Today’s public schools, far from being bastions of free speech, are microcosms of the world beyond the schoolhouse gates, and increasingly, it’s a world hostile to freedom. Within America’s public schools can be found almost every aspect of the American police state that plagues those of us on the “outside”: metal detectors, surveillance cameras, militarized police, drug-sniffing dogs, tasers, cyber-surveillance, random searches, the list goes on. Whether it takes the form of draconian zero tolerance policies, overreaching anti-bullying statutes, police officers charged with tasering and arresting so-called unruly children, standardized testing with its emphasis on rote answers, political correctness, or the extensive surveillance systems cropping up in schools all over the country, young people in America are first in line to be indoctrinated into compliant citizens of the new American police state. -- John W. Whitehead, author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:30:00 +0000
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