Vocabulary
What does the word carceral mean?
Are family courts open to the public or are they closed?
they are closed, cases are private
How many crayons did the first Crayola box have?
8 crayons
The colors were red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown and black.
What does the word abolition mean?
General definition: To end or destroy a system
Prison abolition definition: political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment.
When was CPS (Child Protective Services) established?
When was Cartoon Network launched?
October 1, 1992
What does the word surveillance mean?
the monitoring of behavior, activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing
True or False: The majority of children are removed from their parents due to neglect than abuse
True
Neglect in CPS cases is seen as a vague (not clear) legal category that centers on a parent's failure to provide food, housing, child care or failure of parent to get treatment for mental health or substance abuse.
What was the original name of Cheerios?
CheeriOats
What is the foster care industrial complex?
a multi-billion-dollar government apparatus that regulates millions of marginalized people through intrusive investigations, monitoring and forcible removal of children from their homes to be placed in foster care, group homes and “therapeutic” detention facilities
What is the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act?
an act that gave financial incentives for states to reduce their foster care populations by increasing adoption rather than offering cash, food, housing or childcare assistance to families
True or False: The Legos from 1958 fit with Legos from today?
True
What does racist ideology mean?
a system of ideas about race that allow for racist behaviors, laws, policies, systems, & governments to seem reasonable, rational, and normal
True or False: Most of the money Congress gives to child welfare does not go to foster care.
False
Most of the money goes to foster care
In 2018, 8 out of 9 billion of dollars given to child welfare went to forster care
True or False: Mario from the Nintendo game was originally named Jumpman
True