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Classrooms and Courtrooms: Facing Sexual Harassment in K-12 Schools & Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in our Schools. . - Reviews - book review
Radical Teacher, Spring, 2003 by Pam Chamberlain
The regulation of school behavior is becoming more and more conservative.
Compulsory adherence to a rigid social structure with traditional sex roles is just one of the rules. Racial profiling and singling out mentally ill children and labeling them as criminals are two other topics discussed in very helpful ways elsewhere in the collection.
One drawback to this anthology is an unfortunate repetitiveness. Everyone seems to have the same perspective: zero tolerance is a lousy idea whose time has come and gone. But there is useful documentation of the increase in suspensions and expulsions in U.S. schools that can provide fuel for a campaign to eradicate zero tolerance. And there are policy recommendations to counteract this trend.
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Taken together, Classrooms and Courtrooms and Zero Tolerance paint a troubling picture of today's K-12 schools as places where the culture wars still flare up at the expense of children. Fortunately, they also constitute a call to arms for continued diligence in creating and maintaining safe schools where everyone learns and grows.
PAM CHAMBERLAIN has taught Sunday school, middle school, high school and college students. After many years, she escaped the Massachusetts Department of Education just as it was getting heavily politicized by conservative forces. She now juggles jobs researching the political right and supporting lbgt youth.
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