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The School to Prison Pipeline | Kiera Wilmot | TEDxYouth@TampaRiverwalk

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D. Problem and Solution:  What can we do to end the school to prison pipeline?

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D. Problem and Solution:  What can we do to end the school to prison pipeline?

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Even though there are many problems with schools and students, there are many people who try and help find solutions. School to prison pipelines are a serious problem. School age students are being arrested unfairly and possibly charged with felonies. You often see schools have police officers instead of counselors, which can escalate a lot of situations. This leads to a student being prosecuted. In order to solve this problem, we need to have more counselors instead of police officers to de escalate situations. In order to afford counselors, schools need better funding. $1,500 is the cost to keep a student in juvenile prison per day. Taking funding from the prisons to give back to the schools is just one solution to this problem. In 2016, California educators and teachers were asked what people could do to end the school to prison pipeline. Here is what they said:  Number one, Police should be the last resort, not a first response. This is an extremely important step to exclude any possibility of arrests. Number two, improve the staff to student ratio. Number three, put less emphasis on standardized tests. Number 4, provide more college and career prep. This will help students get ready for the real world. Number five, California educators said there should be more alternative discipline practices. This means there should be less suspension and expulsions. Suspension and expulsions have a very bad impact on students. In conclusion, the school to prison pipeline has many solutions.

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The school to prison pipeline is a serious problem. All of the causes circle back to one another, causing a vicious cycle. Funding plays a huge role in the school to prison pipeline problem. A lot of schools don't have a lot of funding or resources, which leads to teachers having a high turnover rate. Because teachers have a high turnover rate, many students are not getting the stable education they need. Lack of funding also causes more police officers instead of being able to afford counselors.  Because there are more police, it affects the school environment. The school becomes a easily escalated place, not sufficient for learning. 67% of youth at local detention centers were sent from the school system. When students are sent to a juvenile prison, it makes students feel untrusted, even though they may not have done anything untrustworthy, causing juvenile prisons to be dysfunctional. More people of color are likely to be arrested because of cultural bias, even in a school environment. Consequently, Black students were disproportionately taken into custody in 43 states and in the DC area. Schools either suspend, expel or arrest students. Almost 4% of all students in Washington were suspended at least once (44,655 students) in 2015. These students lost over 169, 689 days of class in Washington in total. As a result, “A student who gets suspended does worse in school” a study done at the Urban Institute found in 2018. Students who are in school less are more likely to commit crime. This leads to, once again, more student arrests. Schools will still contribute to the arrest of students even though it doesn't happen on school grounds. If schools have counsellors instead of police officers, it would lead to less expulsions, suspensions and arrests.  The school to prison pipeline is less of a line and more of a horrible circle; a habit we need to break.

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B. Chronological/Sequential: Kiera Wilmot's misunderstanding  

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B. Chronological/Sequential: Kiera Wilmot's misunderstanding  

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It was a regular school day on April 21st, 2013 and I walked into science class. As I walked in, my science teacher started to explain our science project. Throughout the class, I racked my brain for an idea. My friend suggested doing a volcano, but my teacher said no volcanoes. More specifically, no baking soda and vinegar volcanoes. Then, I had an idea! I thought I could use different ingredients, and try to either slow the reaction or dissamate it entirely. I decided on toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil. The next day, I brought in my project to show my teacher. My friends were just as curious as I to see how it worked. That morning, I showed them. As soon as I started the reaction, the only thing that happened was the lid popped off and a bit of smoke came out. But my principal wasn't far away and asked me what happened. I then told him. Just before lunch, I was pulled out of class and told to write a written statement about what happened that morning. I sat down and was told I'd be arrested and charged for two felony bomb charges. Then the police officers talked to my teacher and she told them there was no science project whatsoever. After that, I was handcuffed in the back of a police car and taken to the juvenile justice center where I was processed. I was taken inside and then they took fingerprints and mugshots. My mom came to pick me up, and she was confused because she didn't even get a call that I was in trouble, she only got the call that I was arrested. I went home and I was already on the news. "Kiera Wilmot brought a bomb to school and detonated it" was the headline. We had to get a lawyer, and for the time being I had to go to an alternative school.  It felt like prison. Every morning we had to walk through a metal detector, and the curriculum was horrible. After a month of public outburst and petitions, the charges were dropped. My story showcases the increasing number of black girls who are being shunted into the criminal justice system. My charges were dropped on May 22nd, 2013. In a few interviews, people have asked me if I thought race played a role into my arrest based on the fact black girls are 6 times more likely to be suspended then white girls. I responded, “With those statistics, there’s no denying it”.

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E.Text Feature 2: Graph- Boys of color more likely to be imprisoned

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E.Text Feature 2: Graph- Boys of color more likely to be imprisoned

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This graph shows that based on social biased and racial inequalities, boys of color are more likely to be imprisoned. Boys of color are more likely to be arrested, even in school environments.

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E. Text Feature 1: Today's Students Experience 

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E. Text Feature 1: Today's Students Experience 

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This image shows that without proper funding, schools create environments that are like prisons, which leads to students going to juvenile prison. As you can see below, it shows harsh school discipline, which can often lead to misunderstanding, and ultimately pushes kids into the school to prison pipeline.

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Information:

ACLU. 12 Aug. 2019, www.aclu-wa.org/docs/what-are-impacts-suspension-and-expulsion. Accessed 26 Jan. 2021.

Chalkbeat. 23 Aug. 2018, www.chalkbeat.org/2018/8/23/21105547/suspensions-really-do-hurt-students-academically-new-studies-confirm-but-maybe-less-than-previously. Accessed 28 Jan. 2021

JusticePolicy.org. www.justicepolicy.org/news/12206. Accessed 28 Jan. 2021.

Keep Young People out of Prisons and Make Sure It Is Safe.  www.youthaction.org.au/keep_young_people_out_of_prison. Accessed 21 Jan   2021.

Splinter News. 26 May 2016, splinternews.com/5-ways-to-end-the-school-to-prison-pipeline-1793857087. Accessed 29 Jan  2021.

The Washington Post. 20 Oct. 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2015/10/20/before-ahmed-and-his-clock-there-was-kiera-and-her-science-project/. Accessed 28 Jan. 2021.

Images and Other Media:

"School to Prison Pipeline-RISE." Youtube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6eFKtco4Jc.   Accessed 21 Jan. 2021.

The School to Prison Pipeline Kiera Wilmot. Youtube, www.youtube.com/ watch?v=kBhMTXnw6xU. Accessed 28 Jan. 2021.

"The School to Prison Pipeline." Public Health Post, 27 Feb. 2017, www.publichealthpost.org/databyte/school-prison-pipeline/. Accessed 28 Jan.  2021.

The Washington Post. 30 Jan. 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/ 30/black-teens-who-commit-a-few-crimes-go-to-jail-as-often-as-white-teens-who-commit-dozens/?arc404=true. Accessed 28 Jan. 2021

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A. Concept/Definition: What is the school to prison pipeline?  

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A. Concept/Definition: What is the school to prison pipeline?  

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A school to prison pipeline is an imaginary pipeline where schools push kids into the juvenile justice system. This means school age students are being arrested unfairly and possibly charged with felonies. You often see schools have police officers instead of counselors, which can escalate a lot of situations. This leads to a student being prosecuted. It costs $1,500 per day to keep a juvenile in prison. These prisons don’t work, yet they get more funding than schools do. Schools are in poor conditions because more money goes to the juvenile prisons instead of education, which circles back to more police officers because schools can't afford counselors. According to Education Week, almost 70,000 students were arrested during the 2013-2014 school year. $1,500 per day for a school would be a better use of money, allowing schools to be more effective and stop unfair arrests.