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Study shows that the kids that get suspended are more likely to get held back or even drop out of school.

More than 48% of the kids suspended in pre-school, more than once, are black. And students with disabilities are also suspended more often than kids without disabilities.

Studies do not show that colored kids misbehave more often than their white counterparts. However, studies do prove that white kids would get in trouble for provable crimes, along the lines of vandalism or smoking; whereas black students would get in trouble for subjective reasons, like disrespecting or talking back to a teacher.

97% of the time, suspension was decided by the administrators, compared to the 3% that suspension is the required punishment.

Discrimination in the classroom begins at a very early age, even as young as pre-school. Colored children would get higher punishments for lesser misdemeanors.

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Juvenile crime rates are dropping and the juvenile conviction rate dropped 41% in 15 years, between 1995 and 2010. However, OSS is rising, up by 10% since 2000. (double what it was in 1970)

Black students are 3.6 times as likely to get suspended or expelled as their white counterparts.

Study shows that the kids that get suspended are more likely to get held back or even drop out of school.

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Sen. Richard Durban held the first federal hearing about the school to prison pipeline in attempts to end this phenomenon that values incarceration over education. Some suggestions that were brought up that could end school to prison pipeline are:
-  Create agreements with the police department and court systems to limit the amount of arrests made in schools
- Train teachers on the use of positive behavior supports for at risk students so problems could be handled in the classroom and the student could remain in school.
-List the specific offenses that will be punishable in the student handbook so if a student brakes a rule everyone no matter what their race is treated the same way.

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PBS describes the school to prison pipeline as an epidemic that is plaguing America. These be no tolerance policies in schools are increasing the rate of suspension and expulsion which are just pushing the kids back to the source of their unhappiness: their homes and communities, which are filled with bad influences, this leads to increase crime rate in students. Then the PBS website gave us some statistics about the pipeline mostly effects people of color and people who have learning disabilities and the increase in funds that are spent on incarceration.

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The organization ACLA noticed that we have a major problem in America sending kids to jail for minor wrongdoings when these problems should be handled in school. The ACLA believes that students should be educated rather than incarcerated; they are working towards putting a stop to the school to prison pipeline by challenging numerous policies and practices within public school systems and juvenile systems. This website explains that the pipeline begins when schools do not have the funds for "Extras" mean counselors, textbooks, etc. this doesn't give students the right resources for a good education so this eventually leads to dropout. Also a lot of schools enforce the no tolerance policy, meaning harsh punishments will be given to student who just commit minor wrongdoings, is is increasing the amounts of suspensions and expulsions, which leaves students unaccompanied at their house with no school work to do, which leads to trouble.  Also a lot of schools now rely on the police officers place in that school to decide the punishment of a student rather than the teacher. This has led to an increase in juveniles in jail for minor things.

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Pushing kids out of school and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems was known as the "School- to - Prison Pipeline."

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American Kids & The School-To-Prison Pipeline

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The ACLU which is the American Civil Liberties Union, is trying to challenge the school to prison pipeline by starting a national trend to wherein children that are funneled out of schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

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Many children have disabilities or histories of poverty, abuse or neglect. Which mostly causes them to behave very badly to themselves or to their peers.