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Investigative reporter Annette Fuentes visits schools across America and finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, teachers carrying guns, increased policing, and all-seeing electronic surveillance. She also reveals the many industries and “experts” who have vested interests in perpetuating the Lockdown High model. 

This book is important to parents concerned about their children’s education; teachers, administrators, staff, and school boards who wish to undo the “Lockdown High” mentality; and  students and young people themselves, in order that they understand that “a day of school” includes a hefty dose of social control as well as education.

Moreover, check out this news story, detailing a NY state law that introduces felony charges and fingerprinting into relations between students and teachers.

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In its formal statement to moviegoers, the ABWH admonishes  the film for “widespread stereotyping” of African American culture during the Civil Rights era.  Their concerns range from inaccurate “representations of black life,” including an apathy-inducing “Mammy” portrayal of all African American women, an “over-exaggerated” style of speech, and an ubiquitous lack of faith in black men’s integrity, to direct contradictions of history, such as failing to adequately depict Civil Rights activism or the sexual abuse many African American female domestic servants received from their employers.

Ultimately, the ABWH confutes the historical relevance of the film and novel, arguing that “The Help” is nothing more than a “coming-of-age story of a white protagonist, who uses myths about the lives of black women to make sense of her own.”

Celebitchy, the popular star-oriented blog, sympathizes with the views of ABWH, but clearly takes a less critical stance towards the film. In its eyes, the film “doesn’t even slightly pretend to be a cumulative historical presentation of the Civil Rights Era by any stretch,” viewing its chief purpose as the opening of people’s eyes and hearts to life, courage, and relationships, but the author hedges, declaring, “my opinion in this matter doesn’t hold much credence for the simple fact that I’m not black.”

David Bisson is a New York college student, and a lover and champion of the truth.