School To Prison Pipeline Research Paper
School-to-Prison Pipeline
The school-to-prison pipeline plagues schools and youth across the country, specifically targeting minority and disabled students in urban areas. Due to policies employed in schools across the United States, students are channeled directly from the school system into the criminal justice system. Many of these schools have metal detectors, law enforcement officers in the buildings and intense zero-tolerance policies that treat minor and major infractions with extreme severity. Authorities and educators have relied heavily on suspensions, expulsions, and outside law enforcement to solve the behavior and disciplinary issues in the classroom.
Coates (2016) states that the United States now accounts for less than 5 percent …show more content…
Zero-tolerance policies often result in suspensions and expulsions, they frequently remove students from the classroom, which in turn moves them onto the school-to-prison pipeline. The school to-prison pipeline starts when teachers and school police assign punishments to misbehaving students that remove them from the classroom. These students then become much more likely to be introduced into the criminal justice system, even if their “crime” was relatively insignificant. The punishments that arise with zero-tolerance policies have been as drastic as leading to …show more content…
It is unfortunate that this data exist but there is an answer. We have to understand that regardless of skin color or social economic status people are people. People, especially children, are not a threat. We need to learn to give people a chance. Furthermore, if a person notices that a student is falling behind or just not “following directions” we have to learn to redirect instead of misdiagnose. Once a student has a label, that label sticks with them forever and to me that is just not fair. Many students believe that they are failures because they did not do well in school or always seemed to fail at everything in
The school-to-prison pipeline plagues schools and youth across the country, specifically targeting minority and disabled students in urban areas. Due to policies employed in schools across the United States, students are channeled directly from the school system into the criminal justice system. Many of these schools have metal detectors, law enforcement officers in the buildings and intense zero-tolerance policies that treat minor and major infractions with extreme severity. Authorities and educators have relied heavily on suspensions, expulsions, and outside law enforcement to solve the behavior and disciplinary issues in the classroom.
Coates (2016) states that the United States now accounts for less than 5 percent …show more content…
Zero-tolerance policies often result in suspensions and expulsions, they frequently remove students from the classroom, which in turn moves them onto the school-to-prison pipeline. The school to-prison pipeline starts when teachers and school police assign punishments to misbehaving students that remove them from the classroom. These students then become much more likely to be introduced into the criminal justice system, even if their “crime” was relatively insignificant. The punishments that arise with zero-tolerance policies have been as drastic as leading to …show more content…
It is unfortunate that this data exist but there is an answer. We have to understand that regardless of skin color or social economic status people are people. People, especially children, are not a threat. We need to learn to give people a chance. Furthermore, if a person notices that a student is falling behind or just not “following directions” we have to learn to redirect instead of misdiagnose. Once a student has a label, that label sticks with them forever and to me that is just not fair. Many students believe that they are failures because they did not do well in school or always seemed to fail at everything in