School To Prison Discipline: A Comparative Analysis

The school to prison pipeline focus on the patterns of students that comes in contact with criminal justice system. There are children that feel protected and safe when they are in school instead being in the outside world. There are various reasons why kids behave badly because of the environment they live in and people they socialist with. Kids are easily influenced to do things they should not do. My opinion, race does impact in school and the outside world. In the article American Civil Liberties Union states, “ Students of color are especially vulnerable to push – out trends and the discriminatory application of discipline” (ACLU, 2017). For example, when I was in middle school I would see teachers supervising the hallways to see that students are going to their classes and that there is no fights occurring. …show more content…
It does not look like a school that is educating successful instead making the students to feel they are in prison and some are going to fail. Another article text states, “Students of color, particularly African – American boys, account for an overwhelming number of school – enforced punishments, as well as the majority of arrests for school – related for school – related incidents around the country. African American students overall are now nearly three times as likely to be suspended, and Latino students are nearly one – and – a – half times as likely to be suspended as their white peers” (LDF, 2017). My opinion is African Americans are punished more than any other race. I believe teachers think African Americans are more trouble and easily gets into fights and are send to