1. All police out of all schools 2. Grow the hell up about teen sex 3. Stop prosecuting teen sexting as "child porn" http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/24/16-year-old-commits-suicide-after-school …
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Replying to @ChaseMadar @egyp7
Why the hell would you put police officers in schools?
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Replying to @devil_toad @ChaseMadar
You must not have grown up in the US. Schools have cops here so they can protect kids from dangerous things like naked selfies.
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Replying to @egyp7 @ChaseMadar
So I googled this. It's been around for 60 years? How have I not heard of this before?
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Replying to @devil_toad @ChaseMadar
Became super common in the 1990s after the Columbine shootings.
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Replying to @egyp7 @devil_toad
Yes–& here's the irony: Columbine had an armed cop who was useless during massacre; school then refused–wisely–to install metal detectors
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But working-class urban schools, mostly Black & Latino, didn't have the political/social clout to push back against new security crackdown
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Annette Fuentes' Lockdown High (@VersoBooks) is excellent primer; here's my overview: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175654/
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