Maia Szalavitz ~ Trick or Treatment in SLATE

[Antigen]

This lady is very quickly becoming one of my heroines!

Trick or Treatment
Teen drug programs turn curious teens into crackheads.
By Maia Szalavitz
Posted Friday, January 3, 2003, at 10:38 AM PT

America loves its quick fixes. Think your child might be on drugs? Test him. Think your child's school is full of addicts? Test them all. Institute a policy of zero tolerance: One strike and it's off to a drug treatment program. Get those rotten apples out and clean them up before they can poison the whole batch. Last year's Supreme Court decision in Board of Education v. Earls allowed for a massive expansion of drug testing in schools. And increases in drug testing increase the numbers of offenders. As a result, schools and juvenile courts are increasingly turning to both "zero tolerance" and "treatment, not punishment" as a remedy.

Full article: http://slate.msn.com/id/2076329/

It takes a village idiot to believe that a family needs instruction from the government to raise a child.
-- Anonymous homeschooler

[FaceKhan]

Slate does occasionally run a decent article. They tend to make a lot of claims that their writers can't back up with any evidence though. That has just been my experience with them after being the subject of one of their articles once upon a time. That and they are a complete mouthpiece for Microsoft on technology and business issues.

[Michelle.]

I think Maia will have a book coming out sometime soon about wwasp/sepcialty boarding schools, etc.