How This School's Punishment Of Black Students Reinforces The Prison System
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Shot. Dead. In jail. That’s what their teachers told them would happen if they did bad on a test. Was it true? The fear this school put in these Black elementary school students wasn’t just unacceptable. It was prison-like.
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| 0:30.0 | Shot dead in jail. |
| 0:34.0 | That's what their teachers told them what happened if they did bad on a test. |
| 0:40.0 | Was it true? |
| 0:41.0 | The fear this school put in these black elementary school students wasn't just unacceptable. |
| 0:48.6 | It was prison-like. |
| 0:50.6 | This is two minute black history. what you didn't learn in school. In 1994, Bell Hooks described a past school experience as more like a prison, a place of punishment |
| 1:16.0 | and confinement rather than a place of promise and possibility. |
| 1:20.8 | In 2023, a Florida elementary school blatantly displayed what hooks describe. |
| 1:28.2 | On a Friday at Boonal Elementary School, select students were pulled out of class for an assembly. |
| 1:35.0 | All were black. |
| 1:36.8 | The presentation shown was even titled AA Presentation for African Americans. |
| 1:44.0 | Students were shamed about low standardized test scores and bribed with gift cards. |
| 1:51.0 | Their parents weren't notified. Frightened students said they were told |
| 1:56.8 | they'd end up dead or in jail if they did poorly on their upcoming tests. So how does this all tie into Bell Hook's message? |
| 2:05.0 | Prison culture is more than the threat of literal incarceration. |
| 2:16.0 | Catalogging and dehumanizing people as statistics, |
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