2009. Safford Arizona: Female student fully strip searched on suspicion of hiding an aspirin. High court debates whether this should be a common practice. NYTimes.
2009. Clay County, FL: Nine year old girl handing out cough drops accused of selling drugs at school. Local News.
2008. Orlando Florida: Cops taser 11 year old girl at Florida elementary school. Local News.
2004. Muskegon Michigan: Government portrays homeschoolers as terrorists to bus full of children in a mock drill. Homeschool World, PrisonPlanet.
2007. Albany Oregon: Cops terrorize kids in another school shooting drill. YouTube, Local News.
Several professors at USF in the last few years have taught my class that the purpose of government schools is to establish social norms — to establish with government funding what the government sees as appropriate behavior.
