Education has been said to be the key to success. So why is so many young youth success being interfered with in the United States? The school to prison pipeline that’s the answer. The school to prison pipeline is the process in which students are taken out of schools and into prisons. When this is said it doesn’t mean push straight to prison but the start of the process of youth being pushed into the criminal justice system. This is the process of criminalizing youth that is carried out by disciplinary policies and practices within schools that put students into contact with law enforcement. Once they are put into contact with law enforcement for disciplinary reasons, many are then pushed out of the educational environment and into the juvenile
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In “Disturbing the school to prison pipeline” article it described the range of circumstances that children face while funneled out of public schools and into the criminal justice system. The article stated how concern scholars , educators, parents , students and organization all over the country have experience this as a shocking trend and believed it is something that needs to be dealt with. The Article focuses on activist who have been working to disrupt, reverse and redirect the pipeline. The article focuses on the effort and contributions from the people most affected adults and youth who have been incarcerated or whose lives have been shapes by the school to prison pipeline. (Desai, shiv R. and Andrea Abeita. …show more content…
This can cause students to have contact with law enforcement at a young age. Even though their intended purpose is to protect students and ensure safety on school campuses, they often handle disciplinary issues that often escalates minor and nonviolent issues into violent, criminal incidents that have negative impacts on students.
Research on this topic proves that it is zero tolerance policies, punitive disciplinary measures like suspensions and expulsions, and the presence of SROs on campus that lead more and more students being pushed out of schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
The sociological idea of socialization also helps us understand why the school to prison pipeline exists. After family and being home, school is the second most important place as a child and adolescents. It is also known to be the second place you spend your time at. It’s a place where children and adolescents learn social norms for behavior and interaction and receive moral guidance from authority figures. By removing students from schools which becomes a way of discipline it also takes them out of this formative environment and it removes them from the safe environment that the school is supposed to provide to
In “Disturbing the school to prison pipeline” article it described the range of circumstances that children face while funneled out of public schools and into the criminal justice system. The article stated how concern scholars , educators, parents , students and organization all over the country have experience this as a shocking trend and believed it is something that needs to be dealt with. The Article focuses on activist who have been working to disrupt, reverse and redirect the pipeline. The article focuses on the effort and contributions from the people most affected adults and youth who have been incarcerated or whose lives have been shapes by the school to prison pipeline. (Desai, shiv R. and Andrea Abeita. …show more content…
This can cause students to have contact with law enforcement at a young age. Even though their intended purpose is to protect students and ensure safety on school campuses, they often handle disciplinary issues that often escalates minor and nonviolent issues into violent, criminal incidents that have negative impacts on students.
Research on this topic proves that it is zero tolerance policies, punitive disciplinary measures like suspensions and expulsions, and the presence of SROs on campus that lead more and more students being pushed out of schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
The sociological idea of socialization also helps us understand why the school to prison pipeline exists. After family and being home, school is the second most important place as a child and adolescents. It is also known to be the second place you spend your time at. It’s a place where children and adolescents learn social norms for behavior and interaction and receive moral guidance from authority figures. By removing students from schools which becomes a way of discipline it also takes them out of this formative environment and it removes them from the safe environment that the school is supposed to provide to