The “School to Prison Pipeline” is disgustingly real. Red States are systematically taking resources away from public education in favor of school voucher programs.
Public education is already severely underfunded in red states. If we connect the dots it’s not hard to see what is happening here.
The dumbification of America, sponsored by your friendly Republican Party.
Well you know it's tough for them not to access their handy little pool of slave labor, since we went ahead and stupidly included it in the Constitution.
. California issued Dyslexia Guidelines, but I couldn’t get a public school district here to provide a researched-based $900 reading program to help high school special ed kids achieve functional literacy, because they wanted to stick with a purchased program that didn’t work. PS Connecticut research on how to teach reading: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1777-3141
definatley school to prison! Teachers should be making 7 figures and public schools need the arts &shop classes plus teacher assistants. My mother took Latin in high school! If the 1% paid their fair share in taxes we could afford to do that and more! Invest in the future. ✌️💙
I think they’ll leave Griswold until after the election, like the emergency act, and we know libertarians are hypocritical aholes. Republicans are straight up cheaters, so I picked the school-prison nightmare. Now they can add unhoused people to their slave labor.
Why do people like Peter Theil vote for republicans that are going to roll back marriage equality and gay right?? He is gay and married but we all know it is about money for the rich republicans and it shows you how money is evil…
Because he believes that putting money into the GOP gives him amnesty from them going after him and his loved ones. It’s the same thing the businessmen in 1930s Germany did, and they ended up losing control of their businesses to the Nazi Party.
I chose Griswold because of we see the right to privacy of contraceptives in marriage go down, yet more of the Comstock Act could be brought back. I assume this is a further attack on the right to contraception in general. It could also be a road to banning pornography or specific sex acts between consenting adults, although both of those are covered by other legal precedents.
I also choose Griswold, but all the topics are important, even the Libertarian influencing the R party. Especially since the Libertarian party dropped Civil Rights and equal application of the law from its platform. I think the school to prison pipeline is the next important in this moment, especially after ProPublica exposed the Rutherford Co TN massive abuses. But there are dozens of illegal schemes out there still, just not as flagrant. And even the legal jailing of youth for these indeterminate amounts of time pre trial, destroys lives. I’m not saying the rare older teenager breaking laws multiple times wouldn’t benefit from juvenile detention for a reasonable amount of time, after a fair trial and conviction, or after an incredibly fair plea bargain. But this isn’t happening, not by a long shot.
Ironically, spending a year in juvenile hall gave my motivated special ed client the small-group instruction that he needed for learning. But it’s a tough haul, because in that environment, there’s little for them to do to engage their brains.
Yes, I don’t have any good answers. The practice of jailing children is abhorrent. I do think that sometimes when they are a danger to others and themselves they need a lot of help. I used to teach 6th and 7th graders for a semester and any failure is mine, not theirs. Off the topic, I had a lot of truly violent outbursts from students who were (sometimes) bigger than me. I was never afraid but it broke my heart. I had one male student who, I guess I understood that he was very intelligent and very emotionally troubled, because like recognizes like. On the day of a field trip to explore how scientists study lakes and rivers, he out of the blue picked up his desk and hurled it 30 feet across the room. He was so looking forward to being on a boat and he would have had so many questions! I couldn’t take him though, not with over 30 other students and no other chaperone. I cried later.
So please, I’m begging for anyone to design a better system. A workable system, or set of systems. I don’t think this particular child became a real threat to anyone, but I can’t stand to see a child suffer like that. Before I taught that one semester in middle school, I worked as a contractor for Child Protective Services, and before that I worked a year as a crisis counselor on hotlines. I don’t have a degree in psychology or public health though. I don’t know how to fix this system.
Yeah, I worded that wrong. There are extremely few who need to be in juvenile detention. I’m thinking about actual criminals, like Boberts kid. Intervention beforehand, when he was 10 -16, involving mandatory personal and family counseling, might have been the answer. But after committing fraud and theft multiple times by age 17, I don’t know what else could have been done. Now he’s an adult. He’s a criminal, likely a felon, and that’s never going to change, even if he does.
I’m not familiar with that case. But certainly there are kids out there who haven’t gotten the support/role models/whatever that they need.
And the answer isn’t punishment. It is t writing off the next 60-70 years of their lives because they’ve been bad for half a dozen years. That we do is an indictment of us. A blatant admission on our part that we are monsters.
Read the article, and a few others I wandered the web to. The Boebert family is indeed a piece of work. Kinda knew/suspected that already, of course. So , yeah, I'd say Tyler Boebert is definitely one of those kids who "who haven’t gotten the support/role models/whatever that they need."
Other than that it would give him time away from his mom (assuming her job and obvious lack of interest in being a mother don't already do that), I maintain that time in juvenile detention isn't going to provide what's needed for him to become a better person.
Please get to all four when you can
I voted for School to Prison. Because it’s something so abhorrent I don’t want to think about it. So probably should.
The “School to Prison Pipeline” is disgustingly real. Red States are systematically taking resources away from public education in favor of school voucher programs.
Public education is already severely underfunded in red states. If we connect the dots it’s not hard to see what is happening here.
The dumbification of America, sponsored by your friendly Republican Party.
Well you know it's tough for them not to access their handy little pool of slave labor, since we went ahead and stupidly included it in the Constitution.
. California issued Dyslexia Guidelines, but I couldn’t get a public school district here to provide a researched-based $900 reading program to help high school special ed kids achieve functional literacy, because they wanted to stick with a purchased program that didn’t work. PS Connecticut research on how to teach reading: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1777-3141
I want to hear your thoughts on all of these subjects. I chose the school to prison pipeline with Griswold as a close second.
Griswold - please help us talk to folks to make the reality of these dangers felt.
It was between the Libertarians and the school-to-prison pipeline for me.
definatley school to prison! Teachers should be making 7 figures and public schools need the arts &shop classes plus teacher assistants. My mother took Latin in high school! If the 1% paid their fair share in taxes we could afford to do that and more! Invest in the future. ✌️💙
I think they’ll leave Griswold until after the election, like the emergency act, and we know libertarians are hypocritical aholes. Republicans are straight up cheaters, so I picked the school-prison nightmare. Now they can add unhoused people to their slave labor.
Griswold, second choice libertarians. They’re full of shit, but I do have to give credit to them on the squeaky chicken, however.
Why do people like Peter Theil vote for republicans that are going to roll back marriage equality and gay right?? He is gay and married but we all know it is about money for the rich republicans and it shows you how money is evil…
Because he believes that putting money into the GOP gives him amnesty from them going after him and his loved ones. It’s the same thing the businessmen in 1930s Germany did, and they ended up losing control of their businesses to the Nazi Party.
I chose Griswold because of we see the right to privacy of contraceptives in marriage go down, yet more of the Comstock Act could be brought back. I assume this is a further attack on the right to contraception in general. It could also be a road to banning pornography or specific sex acts between consenting adults, although both of those are covered by other legal precedents.
I also choose Griswold, but all the topics are important, even the Libertarian influencing the R party. Especially since the Libertarian party dropped Civil Rights and equal application of the law from its platform. I think the school to prison pipeline is the next important in this moment, especially after ProPublica exposed the Rutherford Co TN massive abuses. But there are dozens of illegal schemes out there still, just not as flagrant. And even the legal jailing of youth for these indeterminate amounts of time pre trial, destroys lives. I’m not saying the rare older teenager breaking laws multiple times wouldn’t benefit from juvenile detention for a reasonable amount of time, after a fair trial and conviction, or after an incredibly fair plea bargain. But this isn’t happening, not by a long shot.
Ironically, spending a year in juvenile hall gave my motivated special ed client the small-group instruction that he needed for learning. But it’s a tough haul, because in that environment, there’s little for them to do to engage their brains.
Yes, I don’t have any good answers. The practice of jailing children is abhorrent. I do think that sometimes when they are a danger to others and themselves they need a lot of help. I used to teach 6th and 7th graders for a semester and any failure is mine, not theirs. Off the topic, I had a lot of truly violent outbursts from students who were (sometimes) bigger than me. I was never afraid but it broke my heart. I had one male student who, I guess I understood that he was very intelligent and very emotionally troubled, because like recognizes like. On the day of a field trip to explore how scientists study lakes and rivers, he out of the blue picked up his desk and hurled it 30 feet across the room. He was so looking forward to being on a boat and he would have had so many questions! I couldn’t take him though, not with over 30 other students and no other chaperone. I cried later.
So please, I’m begging for anyone to design a better system. A workable system, or set of systems. I don’t think this particular child became a real threat to anyone, but I can’t stand to see a child suffer like that. Before I taught that one semester in middle school, I worked as a contractor for Child Protective Services, and before that I worked a year as a crisis counselor on hotlines. I don’t have a degree in psychology or public health though. I don’t know how to fix this system.
“I’m not saying every teenager breaking laws multiple times wouldn’t benefit from juvenile detention”
I very strongly lean toward no teenager benefits in any way from juvenile detention. Incarceration isn’t what they need to get better.
Yeah, I worded that wrong. There are extremely few who need to be in juvenile detention. I’m thinking about actual criminals, like Boberts kid. Intervention beforehand, when he was 10 -16, involving mandatory personal and family counseling, might have been the answer. But after committing fraud and theft multiple times by age 17, I don’t know what else could have been done. Now he’s an adult. He’s a criminal, likely a felon, and that’s never going to change, even if he does.
https://justinrosario.substack.com/p/podcast-poll-you-decide/comment/60485003
I’m not familiar with that case. But certainly there are kids out there who haven’t gotten the support/role models/whatever that they need.
And the answer isn’t punishment. It is t writing off the next 60-70 years of their lives because they’ve been bad for half a dozen years. That we do is an indictment of us. A blatant admission on our part that we are monsters.
Lauren Boeberts son is a real piece of work.
With no other context, I didn't associate the name with the Congresscreep. Thanks for the link. Going to look at it now.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lauren-boebert-son-arrested-tyler/
Read the article, and a few others I wandered the web to. The Boebert family is indeed a piece of work. Kinda knew/suspected that already, of course. So , yeah, I'd say Tyler Boebert is definitely one of those kids who "who haven’t gotten the support/role models/whatever that they need."
Other than that it would give him time away from his mom (assuming her job and obvious lack of interest in being a mother don't already do that), I maintain that time in juvenile detention isn't going to provide what's needed for him to become a better person.
I want to hear them all. I cannot choose! I cannot choose!