School to Prison Pipeline

 Its five am and your alarm you sent on on your phone is going off make a very harsh beep beep beep sound until you get up and turn it off. You tiredly get out of bed and end your alarm, while you start to become fully awake you run to the bathroom to start your warm hot shower as your shower begins to come to an end  you hop out the shower, wash your face and get dresses for a day of school. As you walk out your house you check your phone and its 6:20 am so you start to walk to your bus stop, as you approach the bus stop you see the yellow bus with the words school bus written across the sides with black letters and the door to the bus opens and you find a seat on the overly crowded bus. As your sitting in your your seat you start to hear loud shouting and loud foot steps until your woken up out of your dream. As you start waking up reality hits your not on the annoying yellow school bus anymore,instead you've woken up on a grey buss that smells like old socks and sweat while your hands are chained together and so are your ankles and everyone else's. You start to look at your surrounds very heavily and you see your wearing a jumpsuit that reads OCC Juvenile Detention Center. Now as the reader you maybe thinking how is this possible. Well let me tell you about the "School to Prison Pipeline" system that has been targeting schools within poor communities and predominantly black communities. Many schools become  apart of the pipeline system by placing increased relationships on police rather than teachers and administrators to maintain discipline. Growing numbers of districts employ school resource officers to patrol school hallways, often with little or no training in working with youth. Within schools the zero tolerance discipline has resorted in black students facing disproportionately harsher punishments than white students. Within public school enrollment black students are 16% compared to white students who are 51% and when it comes to multiple suspensions black students are to 42% where as white students are at 31%. Another interesting facts is black students make up 31% of school related arrest and black students are 3x more likely to be suspended and or expelled than white counterparts. Also according to the U.S. Department of Justice, the number of school resource officers rose 38 percent between 1997 and 2007. In conclusion instead of schools added to the flame of the pipeline they need to focus on giving teachers more resources rather that forcing them to use the police and make that student institutionalized