Marilyn Elias 'School To Prison Pipeline'

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“School to Prison Pipeline” Objective Summary Draft 1 In the article “School to Prison Pipeline” by Marilyn Elias, the author describes how the education system is forming a school to prison pipeline affecting hundreds of students. Elias highlights the group of people that are mainly targeted by the system. Children with racial minorities and with physical or mental disabilities are the largest group of student bring the victim of the education system. Elias also claims that the more restrictions that are put upon students such as pushing more police only make the situation worse. A study performed in 2005 found that students these days are far more likely to be arrested at school than before for nonviolent offenses. Last, Elias argues that
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“School to Prison Pipeline” Objective Summary Draft 1 In the article “School to Prison Pipeline” by Marilyn Elias, the author describes discrimination within the school to prison pipeline, how the number of students ending up in the pipeline has increased in the past few generations and how teachers could be the answer to this problem. Elias outlines how children with disabilities only make up 8.6 percent of students in public schools, but they make up 32 percent of children in juvenile detention…

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