Thursday, July 25, 2013

My Reflection on School Prison Pipeline

My opinion on the video's that I watched in class on the school system and the school prison pipeline was real disturbing. I personal think that seeing what the officers are doing to these students are going to make things worst. In the video that I watched one officer arrested a student that had a illness because he had a loud out burst on the school bus. I just don't see the point in that for one he is ill two he could of had a very good excuse on having this out burst, maybe he needed help and that was his way of getting someone's attention. These officers target minorities which is really sad. The students that are being targeted have a future and watching this video shows me that. When the student explain the reasons on why they were arrested are really dumb. They could of gotten any other punishment being talked to for example getting counseling and see why they did what they did. Putting them in a jail for a few days or months is nothing. That's temporarily punishment that they can just brush of when they get out and continue to do whatever they want to do and never learn from their mistakes. These students already have it tough coming from a low income family and having to deal with school work and personal problems they don't need prison as another stressful problem. People say kids are the future but I don't see how kids are the future and officers keep putting them into jail instead of finding some other punishment that will brighten their future or help them to not make the same mistakes. Seeing that this type of behavior is going on really shows me why im going into this field of education in the first place. I want to help make a difference and show these students that going to jail is not the only way of learning their lesson. Show them that not everyone is against them and that there is more to the school system and the world then harsh behavior and unnecessary punishment.       

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