Safe Schools and Students' Rights - Locating Public School Students' Rights in the Wake of the Safe Schools Movement

ISBN-13: 9783836427821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 100 str.

Travis Satterlund

Opis

In the last couple decades our public schools have increasingly become security-based in the wake of the recent school shootings. In academic circlesthis recent amalgamation of events and activities has been referred to as thesafe schools movement. This study explores the nature of the safe schoolsmovement as a social movement and examines its effects on the rights ofpublic school students through a case study. Findings indicate that the safeschools movement has diminished the rights of public school students due tothe policies enacted by schools to ensure school safety. On a national leveland likewise in this case, the rates of suspensions and expulsions increasedwhile the violence and the incidents producing suspension decreased. Judicialdecisions also reveal school officials are afforded wide latitude in conductingsearches of students, and as such, students rights have eroded. Thisbook is addressed to those in the fields of education, political science, sociologyand law. Moreover, school administrators would be well served to readthis book since it taps into many issues faced everyday in our public schools.