In the past decade, a veritable Kindergulag has been erected around schoolchildren, making them subject to arbitrary curfews, physical searches, psychological profiling schemes and--in the latest institutionalized indignity--random, suspicion-less, warrant-less drug testing for just about any kid who wants to pursue extracurricular interests. Last summer, [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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In the past decade, a veritable Kindergulag has been erected around schoolchildren, making them subject to arbitrary curfews,...
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And the USA calls itself the world’s greatest democracy…I pity your kids…sound more like Nazi Germany to me.
ill start a riot at school before i let them drug test me
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