(2015/11/06) Criminalizing the classroom (School-to-Prison Pipeline) (Repost)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 May 2016
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Summary
Edition #966
Today we take a look at the structural systems in place that work to funnel many children, disproportionately children of color, out of the school system and directly into the (in)justice system
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: The School to Prison Pipeline - Advancement Project (@adv_project) - Air Date: 7-3-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: N/A
Ch. 4: Act 2: Spring Valley High - Backtalk from @BitchMedia - Air Date 10-29-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: N/A
Ch. 6: Act 3: Stuck In The School-To-Prison Pipeline - @ajplus -Air Date: 5-20-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: N/A
Ch. 8: Act 4: Criminalizing the Classroom: Inside the School-to-Prison Pipeline - @democracynow - Air Date: 10-28-15
Ch. 9: Song 4: Hipozebra - Selva de Mar
Ch. 10: Act 5: Spring Valley High and the school-to-prison pipeline - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 10-30-15
Ch. 11: Song 5: Rivers - Plusplus
Ch. 12: Act 6: School to prison pipeline locks kids into the system early - This Week in Blackness (@TWiBnation) - Air Date: 2-19-15
Ch. 13: Song 6: A Farewell To Trends - dustmotes
Ch. 14: Act 7: Policing Schools - Why Are There Cops In Schools? - @ajplus - Air Date: 10-30-15
Ch. 15: Song 7: N/A
Ch. 16: Act 8: SafeQualitySchools.org- Ending the #School2Prison Pipeline via @adv_project - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 17: Song 8: The Poet - Shihan
Ch. 18: Act 9: When School Cops Go Bad: South Carolina Incident Highlights Growing Police Presence in Classrooms - @democracynow - Air Date: 10-28-15
Voicemails
Ch. 19: Jefferson fought to end slavery - Simon from San Diego
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 20: Final comments on my untestable hypothesis
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism: SafeQualitySchools.org: Ending the #School2Prison Pipeline via @adv_project
Take Action:
Students, parents, educators, law enforcement, and activists! VISIT The Advancement Project’s SafeQualitySchools.org to get involved.
FOLLOW the #School2Prison thread.
SHARE the "School to Prison Pipeline by Advancement Project” video
CONTRIBUTE your stories: #School2Pipeline Stories
Additional Activism/Resources:
SIGN to demand #BlackLivesMatter issues be addressed in primary debates: #RaiseTheDebate via Black Lives Matter at ”ColorOfChange
Sources/further reading:
”What You Need to Know About #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh” — Infographic via The Advancement Project
"Where Are Black Children Safe?" Roxane Gay at The New York Times
"America Doesn’t Care About Black Women And Girls” by Ijeoma Oluo at The Establishment
"Black Girl Down… and Up” by PrisonCulture
"Take cops out of schools: More officers mean more arrests, even for offenses like talking back.” via The Washington Post
”A Short History of Cops Terrorizing Students” via The Nation
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:04.3 | If you'd like to support the work we're doing, please visit the Contribute tab at bestofaless.com. |
| 0:08.9 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with HOOPS today from the |
| 0:12.5 | Advancement Project, Backtalk from Bitch Media, AJ Plus, Democracy Now, This Week in Blackness, |
| 0:19.2 | and Counter-Spend. |
| 0:30.0 | The school deprazant pygma is the description of how the school system is set up to push you into the prison system. |
| 0:36.7 | School is no longer a community. |
| 0:38.3 | School is no longer a family, a place where we're always welcome. |
| 0:42.6 | You walk in the school, the first thing you see is a metal detector. |
| 0:47.7 | The first face that greets you is a school police officer. |
| 0:52.1 | All the kids want to do is go to school. |
| 0:54.8 | They don't want to go to school to be labeled a criminal. |
| 0:59.3 | When folks talk about the school deprazant pipeline, it's real. |
| 1:03.2 | There's a direct correlation to lack of education, economic opportunity, and also |
| 1:07.9 | incidences of incarceration. |
| 1:09.9 | We have had kids in the system, you know, |
| 1:12.9 | hitting somebody with a ruler. |
| 1:14.8 | We've had kids in the system, tussling or fighting in a hallway. |
| 1:18.6 | They put me in a cell, took me in, ink of me to the gym. |
| 1:23.1 | I sat in a cell for 11 and a half hours. |
| 1:27.2 | I was having an emotional breakdown because I knew in my heart that I really do anything. |
| 1:31.2 | I just felt like I was being criminalized. |
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