How The School to Prison Pipeline Ruins Lives Before They Start • BRAVE NEW FILMS: JUSTICE #2
When a kid gets in trouble at school, we used to send them to the principal's office. Now, we're suspending, expelling or even arresting kids for the smallest misbehaviors. This trend is...
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When a kid gets in trouble at school, we used to send them to principles office. Now we'resuspending, expelling, or even arresting kids for the smallest misbehavior. This trend iscalled the school-to-prison pipeline. There are pipelines all across the country. Nationwideas many as 95% of out of school suspensions are for nonviolent misbehavior like these.In one town the cops were called to break up a fight, a water balloon fight. When youcrack down harshly on kids for minor infractions you are telling them one thing, You are aproblem. Suspending of expelling a kid increases his or her chance to drop out of high school.And we know High School dropouts are 3.5 times more likely than high school graduates tobe arrested in their lifetime. Sending a kid to juvenile dete...
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When a kid gets in trouble at school, we used to send them to principles office. Now we'resuspending, expelling, or even arresting kids for the smallest misbehavior. This trend iscalled the school-to-prison pipeline. There are pipelines all across the country. Nationwideas many as 95% of out of school suspensions are for nonviolent misbehavior like these.In one town the cops were called to break up a fight, a water balloon fight. When youcrack down harshly on kids for minor infractions you are telling them one thing, You are aproblem. Suspending of expelling a kid increases his or her chance to drop out of high school.And we know High School dropouts are 3.5 times more likely than high school graduates tobe arrested in their lifetime. Sending a kid to juvenile dete...
