The Militarization and the Privatization of Public Schools

Abstract

This article offers a case study of the militarization of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). First, we portray the landscape of militarization of education through the example of Chicago Public Schools. Second, we situate the militarization of schools within the current charter school movement. Third, we explain the impact of militarization on youth and critique the view that military academies and military programs are appropriate as public education models. Fourth, with a lengthy appendix, we provide readers with tools to work against the militarization of public schools within their communities.

The New Juan Crow in Education

“…The authors contend that although low-income and middle-class schools may experience a high-security environment, low-income schools run the risk of becoming militarized. Although, militarization of public schools has been conceptualized as military recruitmentand the aim to develop strong positive feelings about military activities and services in poor working class youth (Galaviz, Palafox, Meiners, & Quinn, 2011), the present study builds on Giroux (2006) analysis of a shift from viewing student bodies as social investments to threats of security. In particular, the authors contend that a militarized school environment engages in practices of overpolicing that frame students as potential criminals.…”

“…However, more than an issue of inadequate educational opportunities, schools in urban settings across America have become high-security environments, where police officers, cameras, metal detectors, and harsh discipline policies represent the norm (Brady, Balmer, & Phenix, 2007; Galaviz, Palafox, Meiners, & Quinn, 2011). By drawing from the school-to-prison literature, the authors examine how a lack of institutional resources combined with zero-tolerance discipline, high-security urban school environments, and the criminalization of Latina/o students can influence postsecondary pathways.…”

Living in the Gutter: Conflict and Contradiction in the Neoliberal Classroom A Call to Action

“…Another noteworthy commonplace-U.S. public schools are increasingly on a wartime footing, havens for military mobilization and calls to arms, home to training programs where kids learn to wear uniforms, shoot guns, and drill in lock step (Galaviz, Palafox, Meiners, & Quinn, 2011). Militarization extends into the culture of the school itself where police are becoming an assumed presence on high school campuses, and where acquiescence, uniformity, and compliance-the hallmarks of every authoritarian regime throughout history-are rewarded, while initiative, nonconformity, and free thinking are punished.…”

Contabilidade de custos e formação do preço de venda: Um estudo de caso em uma padaria

“…Esse bom resultado é perceptível quando essa área militar propõe cursos superiores que estejam ligados diretamente ao seu desempenho tático, com isso, são desenvolvidas escolas e até cursos superiores dentro de sua estrutura bem organizada e harmonizada, possibilitando que alguns tenham acesso ao conhecimento, apesar das críticas apresentadas por alguns pesquisadores (HAJJAR, 2005; PRICE, 2008) que elevam a metodologia pedagógica adotada, por se empregar qualidades nãocognitivas dos alunos, onde se englobam a disciplina, obediência hierárquica, exercícios em equipe e a limpeza e higiene corporal. Em lado contrário, se postam educadores, instrutores e estudiosos (GALAVIZ et al, 2011;LIPMAN, 2003;LUNENBURG et al 1999), ao dizer que esse modo produz um grupo de discentes que não possuem uma formação crítica formada, que se norteiam mais pelo amedrontamento do que pelo respeito. O rigoroso regime disciplinar e devidas reprimendas pelas transgressões para o aluno que quebre os regulamentos pode acarretar dano social e psicológico, asseveram estes estudiosos.…”