A young man growing up in the heart of North Philadelphia, M.K. Asante uses empty pages as his motivation for leaving home and not looking back to his young days. In his juvenile years, he faced the mean streets of Philadelphia. He suffered from losing his mother to mental illness, his brother to the juvenile justice system, and he struggled internally to find himself. In his favorable memoir “Buck”, Asante looks at the realities of growing up black in the inner city, showing the school-to-prison pipeline caused by family structure, unequal education, and unemployment in the urban American areas.
Today, there is a large number of juveniles dropping out of school for various reasons. This is a product of the prison-school pipeline and how prisons are now calculated. The School to Prison …show more content…
In 2009, “the dropout rate for white youth was 2.4%, it has remained below the rates for blacks (4.8%) and Hispanics (5.8%) (Fast Facts)”. The saying of the generation was, if you are drop out of high school you will sink into the juvenile justice system. If someone drops out of high school, their chance of imprisonment is very high, most certainly for black students. When students choose to leave the educational institution, they put themselves at a serious disadvantage. The strongest factors that cause students to drop out are family instability, imbalanced education, and unemployment.
A child who does not have a strong family structure, are more likely to become a figure of the school to prison-school pipeline. Studies show that children who receive adequate parental
Today, there is a large number of juveniles dropping out of school for various reasons. This is a product of the prison-school pipeline and how prisons are now calculated. The School to Prison …show more content…
In 2009, “the dropout rate for white youth was 2.4%, it has remained below the rates for blacks (4.8%) and Hispanics (5.8%) (Fast Facts)”. The saying of the generation was, if you are drop out of high school you will sink into the juvenile justice system. If someone drops out of high school, their chance of imprisonment is very high, most certainly for black students. When students choose to leave the educational institution, they put themselves at a serious disadvantage. The strongest factors that cause students to drop out are family instability, imbalanced education, and unemployment.
A child who does not have a strong family structure, are more likely to become a figure of the school to prison-school pipeline. Studies show that children who receive adequate parental