Another Planet: A Year In The Life Of A Suburban High School; Author: Burkett, Elinor; Paperback

Author: Burkett, Elinor
Paperback
Perennial (HarperCollins)
ISBN: 0060505850

With a novelist's eye, Elinor Burkett takes readers behind the school system's closed doors, revealing a world of mixed messages, manufactured myths, and political hype.In the wake of school shootings across the country, one question haunted America: What is going wrong inside our nation's schools? To find out, award-winning journalist Elinor Burkett spent nine months -- from the opening pep rally to graduation day -- in a suburban Minneapolis high school. She attended classes, hung out with students, listened to parents, and joined teachers on the front lines. She soon discovered that, post-Columbine, fears about loners and misfits, Smoker's New Year (a pot holiday), Zero Tolerance policies, and school lockdowns have become as much a part of a teen's high school experi