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Re: [xmca] Being Searched at School

At the highschool next to the housing project we work in, there have been
stabbings and shootings during the school day, never mind beatings. Its all
ugly, and Zdravo's comments capsulize the ongoing challenge that is our
work.
mike

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Lois Holzman <
lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> wrote:

> That's ugly.
> Lois
>
>
> Lois Holzman, Director
> East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
> 920 Broadway, 14th floor
> New York NY 10010
> tel. 212.941.8906 ext. 324
> fax 718.797.3966
> lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org
> www.eastsideinstitute.org
> www.performingtheworld.org
> loisholzman.org
>
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Tony Whitson wrote:
>
> > Surveillance takes other forms in more affluent suburbs.
> >
> > In Lower Merion outside Philadelphia, the high school issued laptops to
> the students, and then remotely turned on the built-in cameras so they could
> monitor the students' activities in their bedrooms or wherever.
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Lois Holzman wrote:
> >
> >> I invite everyone to watch a short clip from The Wok/Play devised and
> performed by Youth Onstage young people  http://vimeo.com/9684907. It
> speaks volumes on their experience of  schooling. For those who aren't
> familiar with high schools in poor neighborhoods in US cities, the scene is
> set at the school entrance where security guards put their stuff through a
> metal detector and search the kids each morning. Enjoy their creative
> response to an impossible and oppressive "learning" environment.
> >> Lois
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Lois Holzman, Director
> >> East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
> >> 920 Broadway, 14th floor
> >> New York NY 10010
> >> tel. 212.941.8906 ext. 324
> >> fax 718.797.3966
> >> lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org
> >> www.eastsideinstitute.org
> >> www.performingtheworld.org
> >> loisholzman.org
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > Tony Whitson
> > UD School of Education
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> >
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