{"id":32641,"date":"2021-04-22T12:16:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T16:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=32641"},"modified":"2021-04-23T21:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T01:52:47","slug":"what-is-the-school-to-prison-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-the-school-to-prison-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline? When was the term coined and what does it mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term school-to-prison pipeline has been coined relatively recently (in the early twenty-first century), although the phenomenon itself has been going on for decades. But what exactly is the school-to-prison pipeline? Simply put, it&#8217;s the process whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds are pushed out of schools and onto the pathway to prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading for the answer to the question: what is the school-to-prison pipeline?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The phrase school-to-prison pipeline describes the continuity between the over discipline of children of color at school and the over-policing of adults of color.\u00a0Here\u2019s how it works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children of color spend most of their waking lives in an education system that constantly punishes them, criminalizes them, and searches for ways to remove them. <strong>Children\u2019s trust in their teachers and schools is damaged from early on<\/strong> by this unfair and overly severe discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zero-tolerance policies increase the harshness of the penalties. The Gun-Free Schools Act (1994), for example, introduced mandatory year-long suspensions for children who were caught with weapons at school. Many schools broadened the definition of \u201cweapons\u201d to include not only knives and guns but camping forks and \u201cfinger guns.\u201d Coupled with the propensity of teachers to see children of color as inherently more dangerous than white children, <strong>these rules affected children of color disproportionately.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police officers began to be placed in schools. These School Resource Officers (SROs) now handle disciplinary matters that would previously have been handled internally. <strong>In schools with SROs, the arrest rates of students are almost five times those of schools without SROs. <\/strong>These officers are extremely active: In the 2011-2012 school year, for example, law enforcement officers in schools arrested 92,000 students. And students who get arrested at school are more likely to be arrested again as adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some kids, getting expelled isn\u2019t even the worst consequence of being criminalized on the basis of your skin color. <strong>On November 22, 2014, Cleveland police shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice for holding a toy gun. <\/strong>When his 14-year-old sister ran over to help him, police tackled her and put her in handcuffs. Steve Loomis, President of the Cleveland Police Union, said later that the boy was oversized and \u201cmenacing.\u201d <strong>This is what happens when people of color are criminalized on sight<\/strong>, when the concept of \u201cchildren\u201d to be nurtured and protected has crystallized around an image of whiteness, and when black and brown children aren\u2019t allowed to be children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline? When was the term coined and what does it mean? 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