School House Hype

What with intrusive random searches, zero tolerance, drug-sniffing dogs, surveillance cameras, metal detectors, mandatory uniforms and on-site armed police officers, the schoolhouse these days is looking more and more like the jailhouse. All of this follows, of course, in the wake of the shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., last spring. It was tragic enough that, in this incident and several other school shootings in the past two years, 26 students were deprived …

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