One issuing facing urban communities that I feel passionately about is the school to prison pipeline. The reason this issue motivates me is that I do not see a lot of resources in our urban schools. One of the reasons is that adults give up on at risked youth in urban school districts. They do not have funding for guidance counselors. The main thing that sets up this pipeline is that the zero tolerance policy we use with our youth. When they get consequences in school, they are left unintended at home because parents are working. Which, I believe urban youth find themselves getting absorbed into violent activities, or joining gangs when they have no other method they have to find help. As far as addressing this issue in Cleveland, I believe
