A Word: From Schoolyards to Prisonyards

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🗓️ 31 October 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

School is supposed to be a safe environment for students to thrive. But too many school policies put non-white and disabled students on the path to prison. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson speaks with professor and author Lori Martin, about fighting the school-to-prison pipeline, and how parents can protect their children from falling into the criminal justice system. Guest: Lori Martin, sociology professor at Louisiana State University and author of Big Box Schools: Race, Education, and the Danger of the Wal-Martization of Public Schools in America Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.6	This is a word, a podcast from Slate.
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1:14.9	School is supposed to prepare students for a bright future, but for too many black children,
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1:23.4	People are not really looking at the disparate impact that some of these policies and practices
1:28.6	have on black and brown children in particular.
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