Annette Fuentes

Annette Fuentes is a New York freelance journalist and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. With a 2002 fellowship on children and family policy from the Philip Merrill School of Journalism at the University of Maryland, she researched school violence, zero tolerance policies and theschool-to-prison track in public schools.

Guest Commentary

From Schoolhouse to Jailhouse

By Annette Fuentes Guest Commentator

Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina, could be as infamous as Columbine High, evoking images of terror in the hallways of a public school as chilling as the Colorado school’s day of infamy in April 1999. On November 5, 2003, local police conducted an early morning, commando-style drug raid at the request of…

Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina, could be as infamous as Columbine High, evoking images of terror in the hallways of a public school…

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