It’s difficult enough raising a child in a world ravaged by war, disease, poverty and hate, but when you add the police state into the mix, it becomes near impossible to guard against the growing unease that some of the monsters of our age come dressed in government uniforms. The lesson being taught to our youngest—and most impressionable—citizens is this: in the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, and your life is not your own) or you’re a prison bureaucrat (politician, police officer, judge, jailer, spy, profiteer, and so on). Then there is what kids are being taught in school. Unfortunately, as constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear, America’s public schools have become microcosms of the American police state, containing almost every aspect of the militarized, intolerant, senseless, overcriminalized, legalistic, surveillance-riddled, totalitarian landscape that plagues us adults. Indeed, if your child is fortunate enough to survive his encounter with the public schools with his individuality and freedoms intact, you should count yourself fortunate. Most students are not so lucky.
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Police kill family dog at child's birthday party
Baltimore County Police Fatally Shoot
Legal group goes to bat for eighth-grader suspended for using oregano in pot prank
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Birth-Control Pill Lands Fairfax Student 2-Week Suspension, Possible Expulsion
Virginia school suspends an 11-year-old for one year over a leaf that wasn’t marijuana
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Colorado girl shaves head for pal with cancer, gets temporarily suspended
Student punished for saying "bless you"
Study: Nearly 1 in 3 will be arrested by age 23
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Fact Sheet on School Discipline and the Pushout Problem
A South Carolina Student Was Arrested for ‘Disturbing a School’ When She Challenged Police Abuse
Do Cops in Schools Do More Harm Than Good?
Federal Judge Rules Alabama High Schools Violated Students' Rights by Pepper-Spraying Them
Chokeholds, Brain Injuries, Beatings: When School Cops Go Bad
A Recipe for Disaster: School Cops Are Being Armed with 50,000-Volt Tasers
Selling Fear: The First US School Installs A Shooting Detection System
Federal Program Supplies Surplus Military Gear to Schools
Militarization of School Police: One Route on the School-to-Prison Pipeline
School Resource Officers: Safety Priority or Part of the Problem?
Pennsylvania Seeks to Close Books on “Kids for Cash” Scandal
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Police in schools: Keeping kids safe, or arresting them for no good reason?
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Rutherford Institute