Report: Miss. School Discipline Too Hard on Kids
Source: Associated Press
" ... the U.S. Justice Department has filed a suit claiming officials are running a "school-to-prison pipeline" ..."
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-miss-school-discipline-hard-kids-18236363
It's so profitable to deprive, poison, and criminalize people, though.
Isn't this the capitalist pattern for the entire USA?
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)It's like some horror movie plot.
It is unacceptable. The people behind this need to be the ones in jail.
Skee
(61 posts)Criminalization is myth-based.
The people need to be healthy and educated
to the extent that they won't want to hurt kids.
malthaussen
(17,193 posts)PA had a nasty scandal about this as well. For-profit prisons. What could possibly go wrong?
-- Mal
Skee
(61 posts)PA no longer has actual ballots, only blackboxes,
so it's corrupt and becoming even more so.
barbiegeek
(1,140 posts)Skee
(61 posts)the better
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)Perhaps, Mike Papantonio? Go ahead and laugh.. I'm serious!
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)as the popes balls.
Skee
(61 posts)any politician or appointee would have to be accountable anymore ...
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Same old racists, new scheme.
The old racists will all be dead, and, except for being despised, forgotten.
May we all live long enough.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)....Mississippi burning, all over again.
Skee
(61 posts)but younger generations will sneer
and discard the traditions of their
less-enlightened forbears.
valerief
(53,235 posts)That's what these schools-to-for-profit-prisons are--slavery complexes.
No Doubt
Selatius
(20,441 posts)The more prisoners in their cells, the bigger their paychecks from the state government.
You can't have a pool of virtual slave laborers unless you destroy the future of these kids in these schools. The best way to do that is to set up a system that makes it very easy to fall down a slippery slope of increasingly harsh disciplinary action, and if the student reacts like a human naturally would to harsh punishment, you dock the student with even more punishments, and incarceration is soon to follow.
The fact that poor black students are disproportionately affected may come out of the fact that black families typically don't have the legal or financial resources to fight corrupt school districts, corrupt prison warden unions, and legislators who get hefty campaign donation checks from shareholders who own stock in privately-run prisons. Also, there is likely an old facet of racism that is present in this equation. If white students are less likely to get placed onto this school-to-prison pipeline for the same infractions that black students commit, the question of racism must be examined.
and well said.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)and education is the cure.