School Prisons And Social Implications Of Punishment Essay

An important point I learned after reading Schools, Prisons, and Social Implications of Punishment is that schools should do more to help students succeed in life and not end up in prison. There are a lot of students that have a difficult family life and that leads them to have a difficult academic life. The school's solution to trouble kids is to just suspend them and that is increasing their chances of ending up in prison. Throughout the United States, schools most frequently punish and suspend students that are minorities (especially Blacks and Latinos), males, and low achievers generally. The students that are getting in trouble are the students that need the most help. The schools give up on these students and just kick them out school, instead of helping them by providing them with a trusting adult or giving them counseling.
The text states that schools punish students by removing and separating the student from the good students; criminals get separated from civilians and put in jail. the author also states that“students are expected to relinquish a certain degree of individual freedom in exchange for receiving the benefits of education.” This arrangement doesn’t tend to work with the students who are not receiving the benefits of an education. They know that admission to college and getting a good high paying jobs- will not be available to them, students have little incentive to comply with school rules. I never thought of the reason that students act out and don’t do their homework is because they realized that going to school is pointless for them because they will not be able to go to college. The students don’t care about their academics because they know that even if they work hard they still won’t be able to go to college. This is very terrible thing that some students have to go through and it makes me upset that college can not be