The war on kids

A startling wake-up call about appalling conditions prevailing in American schools, "The War on Kids" contradicts popular wisdom. Studded with news reports of extreme "zero tolerance" incidents (children expelled for possessing Ibuprofen or for pointing a chicken tender and saying "bang"), Cevin Soling's docu posits that, far from being ridiculous exceptions to the rule as media coverage implies, such examples are endemic to a highly repressive, authoritarian institution whose sole purpose is to control and contain.

source: Review 'The War on Kids' by Ronnie Scheib; www.variety.com/review/VE1117941621.html?categoryid=31&cs=1; Variety; 17 November 2009