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Maximum Security (Paperback, New edition)
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Escalations in student violence continue throughout the nation, but
inner-city schools are the hardest hit, with classrooms and
corridors infected by the anger, aggression, and criminality
endemic to street life. Technological surveillance, security
personnel, and paramilitary control tactics to maintain order and
safety are the common administrative response. Essential
educational programs are routinely slashed from school budgets,
even as the number of guards, cameras, and metal detectors
continues to multiply.
Based on years of frontline experience in New York's inner-city
schools, "Maximum Security" demonstrates that such policing
strategies are not only ineffectual, they divorce students and
teachers from their ethical and behavioral responsibilities.
Exploring the culture of violence from within, John Devine argues
that the security system, with its uniformed officers and invasive
high-tech surveillance, has assumed presumptive authority over
students' bodies and behavior, negating the traditional roles of
teachers as guardians and agents of moral instruction. The teacher
is reduced to an information bureaucrat, a purveyor of technical
knowledge, while the student's physical well-being and ethical
actions are left to the suspect scrutiny of electronic devices and
security specialists with no pedagogical mission, training, or
interest. The result is not a security system at all, but an
insidious institutional disengagement from the caring supervision
of the student body.
With uncompromising honesty, Devine provides a powerful portrayal
of an educational system in crisis and bold new insight into the
malignant culture of school violence.
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