Report: Miss. School Discipline Too Hard on Kids

[Skee]

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

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It's so profitable to deprive, poison, and criminalize people, though.

Isn't this the capitalist pattern for the entire USA?

[MynameisBlarney]

1. I remember reading about this a year or so ago...

It's like some horror movie plot.
It is unacceptable. The people behind this need to be the ones in jail.

[Skee]

4. It's likely more widespread, too

Criminalization is myth-based.

The people need to be healthy and educated
to the extent that they won't want to hurt kids.

[malthaussen]

2. Yeah, it looks like the wheels of justice are turning, albeit slowly...

PA had a nasty scandal about this as well. For-profit prisons. What could possibly go wrong?

-- Mal

[Skee]

6. PA Problems, Indeed

PA no longer has actual ballots, only blackboxes,
so it's corrupt and becoming even more so.

[barbiegeek]

3. This needs to be on MSNBC

[Skee]

7. The more investigative the journalism

the better

[mountain grammy]

5. Where the hell are you, Holder? Can we please have a new AG?

Perhaps, Mike Papantonio? Go ahead and laugh.. I'm serious!

[MynameisBlarney]

8. Yeah, Holder is about as useless

as the popes balls.

[Skee]

9. It's not as if

any politician or appointee would have to be accountable anymore ...

[SunSeeker]

10. "...policies that disproportionally affect minorities." The new Jim Crow.

Same old racists, new scheme.

[Skee]

17. In time

The old racists will all be dead, and, except for being despised, forgotten.

May we all live long enough.

[ReRe]

11. It's almost like....

....Mississippi burning, all over again.

[Skee]

19. It will take awhile

but younger generations will sneer
and discard the traditions of their
less-enlightened forbears.

[valerief]

12. Unfettered capitalism requires slavery everywhere, even the USA.

That's what these schools-to-for-profit-prisons are--slavery complexes.

[Skee]

16. Yes

No Doubt

[Selatius]

13. The for-profit prison industry stands to make more money by turning students into criminals.

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.

[Skee]

15. Exactly

and well said.

[L0oniX]

14. This is all about racism. n/t

[Skee]

18. Agreed

and education is the cure.