Batas Pambansa Bilang 232, or the Educational Act of 1982, enumerated national development goals that include achieving and maintaining an accelerating rate of economic development and social progress, and assuring the maximum participation of all the people in the attainment and enjoyment of the benefits of such growth. Suspension and exclusion, regrettably, do not promote these national development goals. On the contrary, these punishments are more likely to affect economic and social progress negatively. The disciplined students are said to be unfairly excluded from the educational process, not to mention the loss of opportunities that stems from that. It does not only deprive them of their education, but it also helps worsen the “intergenerational poverty and marginalization” prevailing on present times, which eventually diminishes the possibility of having to see these children as productive adults. School drop outs are ostensibly free to roam the streets, but are cut off from access to the ladder of success and are more likely to end up in prison or in the unemployment margin. Their future is functionally as bleak as …show more content…
Whitehead’s School Zero Tolerance Policy Unfairly Criminalize Children, it was discussed that zero tolerance policies were supposedly intended to help making schools safer, but what is being witnessed is its inhumane treatment of young people and criminalization of childish behaviors. These are “ridiculous consequences of childish behavior,” just as how Whitehead has worded it. These policies have created this facade where children are viewed as suspects and treated as criminals by school officials and law enforcement alike. It has led to this situation where an elementary school student is punished in the same way that an adult high school student in his senior years is punished. And a student who actually intends to harm others is treated the same as one who breaks the rules accidentally or is perceived as breaking the
Even as the state police investigated the allegations of torture and death from this school, there was not enough evidence to support these allegations. He was taken out of bed in the middle of the night and was taken to the White House where they threw him on a bed and beat him with a leather strap. “The beating room had a bloody mattress and a naked pillow that was covered instead by the overlapping stains from all the mouths that had bit into it” (Whitehead 69). The evil actions committed against students as depicted in Whitehead’s novel are very similar to the actions described by Cooper in Florida’s Dozier School for Boys. These punishments went beyond the limit of discipline and how they became a product of racism and
The school to prison hypothesis describes how black children enrolled in schools face racialization and discrimination constantly and it is based off the “zero tolerance” policy (T. Davidson, Education, 2018, lecture 5). This theory connects to the book because Maynard explains throughout chapter eight of how black school children are treated differently. They are more subject to punishments and are susceptible to harsher disciplines. Black students are often seen as a threat within the education system and are constantly over surveilled. The linkage between the educational and criminal justice system is strong.
“It is my belief that all young people have the ability to achieve at high levels, and it is our responsibility to ensure that they do… This includes having high expectations for students to succeed academically, socially, in their college and career pursuits, and in life” –Antwan Wilson Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District Community To Be Served For every seven students that earn a diploma from the Oakland Unified School District, three of their peers will never make it to graduation day. In a school district that educates more than 37,000 students, a graduation rate of 67% means that more than 12,000 will drop out before graduating from high school. A disproportionate number of these students are minorities and students
The Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention and Protection Act (JJDPA) was established in 1974 and was the first federal law that dealt comprehensively with juvenile delinquency to improve the juvenile justice system and support state and local efforts at delinquency prevention. This paper will assess the JJDPA and summarize its purpose and implementation and enforcement. Next, there will be a discussion of the historical context of the policy; followed by a focus of the latent consequences. Finally there will be a vignette as to how this Act has affected a person or family as well as personal reflection toward the policy.
53). The research used students of all ages, races, sex, and sexual orientation and identity. The subjects were not chosen based off any specific criteria other than the fact that they attend the public school system within the United States (p. 53). The study was carried out through analyzing public records data, such as the U.S. Department of Education for Civil Rights, in order to determine the number of students suspended within a time period, within what grades were they suspended in, and the reason for their suspension (p. 53-54). McCarter also incorporated research from various authors into her own in order to draw accurate conclusions of the negative consequences that zero-tolerance policies, high-stakes testing, school climate, the increased presence of SROs and their adverse effects on students (p.
Therefore zero-tolerance policies have not had the outcome that politicians have hoped for and should be examined for the effects that they have had on our students. The purpose of this study will be to examine discipline suspensions and expulsions, attendance, and poverty to determine if there is a correlation between these and the graduation rates. In an article by Nirvi Shah (2011), there is discussion about the effects of zero-tolerance policies. Nirvi Shah continues by saying, “Over the past two years, an increasing number of reports and initiatives have pointed out
This system consist material and symbolic criminalization. Material criminalization is when authorities harass youth, and youth are held to this zero-tolerance polices, which excluded youth from settings that would benefit them. These policies usually lead youth to a detention rooms, or incarcerations. Symbolic criminalization consists of youth’s daily experience with being profiled, stigmatized and closely observed during every action they take just waiting for youth to commit an error and be placed in jail. These forms of authorities criminalizing youth can be easily justified by them using youth’s own stereotypes to work against them.
Annotated bibliography Childress, S. (2016, June 2). More States Consider Raising the Age for Juvenile Crime. Retrieved from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/more-states-consider-raising-the-age-for-juvenile-crime/ More states are considering to raising the age for juvenile crimes before being tried as adult because young offender's mental capacity. The idea is to cut the cost of incarcerate young offender in adult prison and ensure offenders to receive proper education and specialized care to change their behavior. Putting children in adult prison does not deter crime.
Today we have between 200,000 and 250,000 children below the age of 18 being charged as an adult every year in the United States. What’s important to note, is that the racial gap in arrest rates is even larger for teens than adults as kids of color are disproportionately affected. Willie has spent the last 30 years in isolation and as a 54 year old man he has nothing to look forward to but the same. He has claimed to have committed over 2,000 crimes and while his original crimes only netted him 5 years of incarceration, he soon proved unable to live in society by assaulting a 72 year old man soon after his initial release. Once in jail again he stabbed a guard and was sentenced to 25 years to life.
In her speech, DeVos talks about how students test scores have flatlined and that approximately 1.3 million students have dropped out of school every year. The previous education administration tried to
Dropout nation showed the struggles that 4 students at Sharpstown High go through on a daily basis that no normal teen should go through trying to earn their high school diploma. All 4 of these students came from terrible home situations that distracted them from learning. One of the students sparkle didn’t even have a home she lived with friends, relatives and even sometimes on the streets. The thing that these kids all had in common was they were really intelligent kids but they had so many family and personal issues outisde school that it caused them to miss or act out in school.
Do you think you can graduate and go to College? Watching dropout nation changes the way I view education. This documentary helps me explain my attitude toward life. The Documentary Dropout Nation influences every paragraph I have written in this essay. When you are reading, this piece asks this yourself this question “Will my essay change what you do in school.”
Because of these horrendous policies, kids can’t even go to school without feeling normal. Specifically, students won’t even feel like themselves when they go to school because they will feel and look like everyone
It wasn 't just students and their parents - civil rights groups got involved, as did educators, and even juvenile judges sounded alarm at the number of young people who came out of zero tolerance with arrest records and other disciplinary millstones around their necks. The Obama Justice Department has also pressed school districts to find alternatives to arrest and expulsion. In recent years, Florida has indeed changed its approach - a 2009 amendment puts more discretion in the hands of school administrators to discipline students. A number of counties have also set up alternative sanctions for infractions - counseling, community service and other rehabilitative programs aim to help students improve their behavior, unlike expulsion, which left students to wander the streets during the day, fall behind on school work and get into even more trouble.
Remove or Revise Zero-tolerance policies are policies that have been adapted in work places, communities, and, most frequently, schools. Depending on how certain schools are run and who they are run by, zero-tolerance policies could be positive and helpful or negative and harmful. Many people wonder are these policies really effective in reducing crime and creating safer environments in schools like lawmakers claim these policies are doing ; most of the opponents to zero-tolerance policies believe that the policies are just cruel punishments that add to the problems that already exist in our schools and communities. There are obviously those who feel that the policies do exactly what they say they do; advocates for zero-tolerance policies