School to Prison Pipeline Research

The policies of ‘zero tolerance’ that leads to harsh punishment because of minor behaviour in school make millions of kids to be either suspended or expelled from school yearly which is a double rate of what used to happen in the 1970s. Moreover, schools have increased the tendency of relying on the school-based police officers (school resource officers (RSOs), to discipline the students. 68% of the student reports having police officers in school while in1975 only one percent of the student could report the presence of police being in their schools. Of late, police officers have been facilitating minor offenses and undertaking harsh response to minor disciplinary issues in school. Some of the harsh policies based on school discipline are acted in misappropriate manner to most of the coloured students, those with disabilities and also those who identify themselves as bisexual, gay or lesbian.

The dropouts are caused by factors like inequality, expulsion, and suspensions from schools. There are high chances for a student to drop out the high school if they had been suspended once at lower school than those who have never been suspended. Students who have dropped out of school face difficult of getting a good job, earn less once employed and have high chances of getting into the criminal justice system. The bias policies, as well as practices that endorsed in the school system, fails the African American students (Elite et al, 2014). Racism is in the educational system of the US and can be connected to the incarceration of coloured youths. African Americans receive unequal punishment compared to white students. The Africa American boys receive harsh punishment at age three right away from potty training.

At school, they can be suspended several times because of minor behaviour that white colleagues don’t receive (Rolf, 2017). The suspensions hat happens at preschool may continue at elementary suspension at High School hence incarceration. All these suspensions which are racially done make black children view themselves as bad people. There is an increase of school to prison pipeline and it will continue at the rate of 2. 4 % yearly if the immediate action will not be taken. 60% of the incarcerated youth are under the age of 18 years and are African American boys. Research shows that the more African American boys are in preschool, the more prisons will make for them in the future (Mallet, 2016). The past mistakes that were encountered in the education system have affected the present-day situation and in near future.