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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, school to prison pipeline is real. [/quote]

It refers to school systems that don't care about kids, writes them off early when kids from high risk environments have academic and behavioral issues, and relies on tactics like suspension, expulsion, tracking problem kids out of the general population, as well as practices like having lots of cops on campus and a very punitive environment.

That's not DCPS, especially not anymore.

"School to prison" pipeline is a progressive criticism of schools that treat children like inmates to be managed and shuffled along. Which is EXACTLY what this guy (I refuse to learn his name, he's just "Alabama Congressman" to me) is doing. It is not a description of a school system that is actually doing a lot to counteract the way public schools in this country have traditionally treated black kids and kids in poverty, both of which are over-represented in DCPS compared to the rest of the country.

But you actually have to know something about public school and our country's history of institutionalized racism to understand that, and this guy doesn't even want to know about either of those things.[/quote]

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