School To Prison Recidivism

The school to prison pipeline is a nationwide epidemic that is affecting our students beginning in their primary years of education such as preschool through their post secondary education, or even post graduate level. The school to prison pipeline is only pushing students out of the education system and into the criminal justice system. Essentially this pipeline targets students whom are either minorities, disabled, or LGBTQ. Through zero-tolerance policies students are becoming targets to educators and the federal education system only causing greater barriers for already struggling students. Despite, the few programs that are counteracting the epidemic there seems to be an ever-growing number in prison recidivism; I do believe that a percentage …show more content…
You would think living in the United States there is equal opportunity in attaining good education, yet there are systems in place that do not allow students to progress. Identifying the educational and racial background of the parents/guardians, the students family economic background, the mental state of mind the student has after experiencing a suspension and/or expulsion, the educators years of service, if there was an effort from to rehabilitate the student are some of the important factors in order to predict the future a student can have in a zero-tolerance setting. There are plenty of questions to be asked, and predicting the educational future of a child seems unimaginable because there are plenty of influential factors can curve the students future. This issue allows us to touch on sub-subjects that are in accordance to this problem. 
 There are two ways in approaching this issue, either pure or applied. The “pure” application to an issue its intent is to clarify information to the research community; essentially its purpose is to further inform concepts. Hence, a “pure” application to the issue of school to prison pipeline and zero-tolerance policies would strictly inform the research community of these two concepts and how their correlations further …show more content…
It allows theories to be applied and tested; further on it motivates change. An applied approach of my research, for example, might be reviewing all information acquired from the school to prison pipeline and zero-tolerance policy, and focus on and inform the success rates one of the apparent remedies, which is restorative justice. I would be able to predict the conclusion of an investigation by acquiring data from various high poverty, high crime schools and the students whom are targeted by zero-tolerance policies of four grade groups (pre-K, elementary school, middle school, high school) and a restorative justice program would applied. However, applied research would be more difficult to carryout due to the precision, and if one thing does not carry out positively it can have serious implications. Yet, integrating programs like restorative justice