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''Over the last 50 years, our nation’s public schools have become sites for increased criminalization and surveillance of young people, particularly Black, Native American and Latinx students, immigrant students, students with disabilities, LGBTQ+ students and other historically marginalized students.1 Since 1999, the Federal government has invested more than $1 billion to subsidize the placement of police in schools, resulting in more than 46,000 school resource officers (SROs) patrolling the halls of K-12 schools throughout the nation.2 At the same time, 90% of K-12 students throughout the nation attend a school that fails to meet adequate student to counselor, school nurse and social worker ratios.''
https://pressley.house.gov/sites/pressley.house.gov/files/200729%20CNC%20One%20Pager.pdf
Race impact on school expulsion
Black students are three times more likely to be expelled than white students
Students are more likely to be held back and drop out if they have faced suspension
Schools need to find other ways to discipline their students There is a connection between juvenile detention and school discipline
Students’ first encounters with the juvenile justice system are often at school.
Some unsettling statistics:
• Schools with police officers reported nearly 5 times more arrests than schools without police.5
• Since 2013, more than 30,000 children under the age of 10 have been arrested in the United States and school-based arrests were a major driver in this trend.6
• Students of color and students with disabilities are more likely to go to a school with a police officer, more likely to be referred to law enforcement and more likely to be arrested at school.
Policing in school buildings
Law enforcement in schools
-When students are disciplined by law enforcement in school it becomes a juvenile offense that appears on their record, which could later impact the chance of them being prosecuted for a second offense
-Cops stationed in schools led to eleven times as many students being sent to juvenile court
-Instead of the court prosecuting the criminals they were more focused on prosecuting the students for making an adult mad
What administration and government need to do:
In order to end the school to prison and deportation pipeline Biden needs to:
fund education, not incarceration
restore and strengthen the civil rights of young people in education
end the private takeover of schools.
Youth are pushing elected officials to pass the Counseling not Criminalization Act to reduce over policing and criminalization of students in schools
This is a the PDF of the Counseling not Criminalization aAct https://pressley.house.gov/sites/pressley.house.gov/files/200729%20CNC%20One%20Pager.pdf
https://jjie.org/2021/04/12/we-are-terrified-police-in-our-schools-will-harm-us/
A growing body of research has not found any evidence that school police make schools safer. When police officers have a presence in schools, students are more likely to have their learning interrupted, more likely to be subjected to physical restraint and interrogation, and more likely to be referred to law enforcement and funneled into the school to confinement pathway
In a opion piece my a student named:
Jasiah Villalta says ‘’And in our schools, our peers are interrogated and questioned every day just for walking to class. It’s clear police officers don’t keep us safe. It is past time to end this cycle of violence and remove the officers who harm us and perpetuate violence within our hallways. ‘’
In a opion piece my a student named:
Jasiah Villalta says ‘’And in our schools, our peers are interrogated and questioned every day just for walking to class. It’s clear police officers don’t keep us safe. It is past time to end this cycle of violence and remove the officers who harm us and perpetuate violence within our hallways. ‘’
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