John enters Kindergarten and doesn’t know his ABC’s, causing him to struggle to keep up with the class. Meanwhile, his classmates write full sentences, making John feel inadequate as he struggles to catch up. John continues to fail provoking him to misbehave in class to gain attention. Constantly, John’s teacher sends John to the Dean’s Office for punishment. By 9th grade John drops out to pursue illegal activities to sustain himself. Eventually, John gets caught committing a crime and is sent to Juvenile Court. According to Kupchik, within The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Rhetoric or Reality, schools and prisons are interlinked as school reveals student’s social, behavioral, cognitive and emotional deficits. In fact, some frustrated individuals
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The usage of criminal justice-oriented logics, strategies, and technology schools create a connection to the criminal justice system. To demonstrate, students are framed as criminals to be tamed, rather than "youth to be taught." This is shown, the schools’ tactics of drug sniffing dogs, surveillance cameras, and School Resource Officers (SROs). Further, recent research suggests that more police in school leads to an increase in school arrests. This is because the officers’ proximity generates a formal report of the crime. Additionally, neoliberal ideals, like Zero Tolerance policies, provide the potential to cause heavy punishments as responses to …show more content…
These reform methods involve student support, school policies, and collaboration within the community. To elaborate, supportive actions for students include providing tutoring, mentoring through counselors rather than SROs and resources to combat poverty. School policies have currently suspended students frivolously, causing the need for dismantling the neoliberal zero-tolerance policy. The policies symbolize school priorities and operating logics rather than student circumstances. Additional policy reforms involve reducing amounts of SRO’s and suspensions. Even more, the policies should foster a positive campus climate by employing positive behavioral intervention, and restorative justice practices. This climate coupled with student support, new policies, and community intervention assist in preventing crime and diminishing misbehavior working to lessen the risk of the
The usage of criminal justice-oriented logics, strategies, and technology schools create a connection to the criminal justice system. To demonstrate, students are framed as criminals to be tamed, rather than "youth to be taught." This is shown, the schools’ tactics of drug sniffing dogs, surveillance cameras, and School Resource Officers (SROs). Further, recent research suggests that more police in school leads to an increase in school arrests. This is because the officers’ proximity generates a formal report of the crime. Additionally, neoliberal ideals, like Zero Tolerance policies, provide the potential to cause heavy punishments as responses to …show more content…
These reform methods involve student support, school policies, and collaboration within the community. To elaborate, supportive actions for students include providing tutoring, mentoring through counselors rather than SROs and resources to combat poverty. School policies have currently suspended students frivolously, causing the need for dismantling the neoliberal zero-tolerance policy. The policies symbolize school priorities and operating logics rather than student circumstances. Additional policy reforms involve reducing amounts of SRO’s and suspensions. Even more, the policies should foster a positive campus climate by employing positive behavioral intervention, and restorative justice practices. This climate coupled with student support, new policies, and community intervention assist in preventing crime and diminishing misbehavior working to lessen the risk of the