Lately, we are seeing more and more stories of children as young as 6 being ticketed and even arrested at school for what would previously have been considered engaging in normal, if unruly, childhood behaviour. This is the result of a multi-pronged approach, implemented in the name of safety, designed to dumb-down, criminalize, subjugate, and disenfranchise young people, especially those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. www.prisonplanet.com/police-handcuff-charge-6-year-old-girl-for-misbehaving.html endoftheamericandream.com/archives/10-disgusting-examples-of-very-young-school-children-being-arrested-handcuffed-and-brutalized-by-police www.informationliberation.com/?id=39284 www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools www.securitycameraking.com/securityinfo/tag/school-surveillance/ www.wddty.com/one-in-seven-american-children-on-ritalin-for-adhd.html www.equalrights4all.org/fcda/dare.html