Analysis: The School To Prison Pipeline

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The school to prison pipeline is unfair and it doesn’t make kids any better. “The school To Prison Pipeline” by Mary Ellen Flannery informs us how bad teachers are educating their students and the way kids are being discriminated. “These racist perceptions create a stereotype that students of color are disrespectful and disruptive which zero tolerance policies exploit” (Mary Ellen, the School To Prison Pipeline, 44). For years society has been making color children feel useless. No one should feel that way. Color children are not bad people, they’re actually people that try hard in life to succeed. Black and Hispanics do a lot of good for this world but we still get discriminated, and that’s a shame. In conclusion racism needs to stop. Black

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