Thursday, July 25, 2013

      The video "The US schools to prisons pipeline" stood out to me because a map was shown and in the map there was a display of how the high school was right across the street from a prison and a juvenile detention center, to me that was shocking. As a future teacher that's one of the things that educators should think about, why have schools around prisons period. We are suppose to help students become better adults not discourage them. By having prisons around schools I think is unnecessary, like there's no benefits, why not build a field where students can play sports, and have events for schools? In this video they also mentioned that if the principal caught you with a hat on several times it will lead to suspension, that is ridiculous we should not pay attention to small things, and look at bigger issues within the school. I'm not saying that hats is not a form of disrespect but take the consequence down a notch suspension is not needed, maybe detention for the whole day or something but in my opinion suspension is overboard, and it's not like it  would not happen again  because in my high school it was prohibited to have hats on, and if a hat was seen on your head the principal would take it off, but the students did not care they would have it on and bring it to school anyway.
     In the video of "Colorado's schools" I think they also have exaggerated responses because a student for writing in a bathroom stall was taken to jail, like really that is not necessary. Again I'm certainly not saying its okay to do that but going to jail shouldn't be the solution. And like one of the men on the video said the student wont learn from his mistakes because he went to jail, he will just be mad at the police. 

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