Argument Essay Huck Finn

Schools are built by the hundreds every year. Parents rely on the schooling and its staff to take care of their kids throughout the day while they are at work or are running errands. If you notice, however, schools have to practice lockdown drills every couple of months and now have to keep their inside classroom doors locked. Why do they do this? “Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog” - Mark Twain. By the 1990's, the U.S. was opening, on average, one new prison or jail every week. Today, the United States has the largest prison population in the world and the highest incarceration rate in the world. It took America 160 years to incarcerate its first million people, but just twelve years to incarcerate the second million according to the Justice Policy Institute. These prisons are being built in urban areas in back fields with 24 hour surveillance. In these urban areas, families thrive and children attend school five out of seven days in a week.

On December 14, 2012, twenty children and six adults were killed in a school shooting. Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut was bombarded with the 2nd deadliest murder in an American elementary school since the Bath School bombing in Michigan in 1927. The Sandy Hook Elementary shootings, labeled as a “mass murder”, ended with the man committing suicide by shooting himself in the head when responders arrived. Families of the deceased were left mourning for their love ones along with others from the school. No human-being in their right mind would find the mass murder of little ones in this world, sane. These parents will never be able to see their kids have their 16th birthday, get their first car, get married and have little ones of their own. According to StatisticBrain.com, 75% of all crimes in the United States were committed by a high school drop out