02-20-2018, 10:39 AM
(02-20-2018, 10:14 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I have yet to see anything in the reporting about the school. I saw your comment about it, but I have seen reporting on the other groups and so that is why I focused on them.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/11/05/243250817/fla-school-district-trying-to-curb-school-to-prison-pipeline
Quote:In Florida, one of the nation's largest school districts has overhauled its discipline policies with a single purpose in mind — to reduce the number of children going into the juvenile justice system.
Quote:It's a move away from so-called "zero tolerance" policies that require schools to refer even minor misdemeanors to the police. Critics call it a "school to prison pipeline."There are two things to learn from this statement. One, that the government can never get it right, they go from one extreme to the other. No porridge for Goldilocks. Second, anytime you hear a buzzword or phrase such as "school to prison pipeline" you know you're about to hear some steaming bulllshit policy.
Quote:Civil rights and education activists say the policy can be a model for the nation.
I certainly hope not.
Finally
Quote:But Marcia Ellison, a member of the local NAACP, said this agreement goes further than the other programs: "What Broward has done is gone to make sure the administration is truly back in charge of the school. They have changed their school code of conduct which was a tool of funneling these kids. That has not happened across the country."
The road to hell and something about intentions comes to mind.
