School-to-Prison Vocab
This term describes a disciplinary action where a student is removed from school as punishment.
What is suspension?
Which amendment to the constitution abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime?
What is the 13th Amendment?
In NYC, this borough has the highest percentage of students passing through metal detectors every day -- over 60%.
What is the Bronx?
These are law enforcement officers stationed in schools with arrest powers.
What are School Resource Officers (SROs)?
In what decade did the first School Resource Officer (SRO) program begin?
What is the 1950s?
True or False: Giving young people jail time serves as an effective “slap on the wrist” that deters them from committing future offenses.
What is false?
Predetermined, often severe, consequences for specific student behaviors, regardless of context or individual circumstances.
What is a zero-tolerance policy?
This initiative from the 1980s, promoted by the Reagan administration, inspired "zero tolerance” school policies by encouraging a “tough on crime” stance.
What is the War on Drugs?
Black students are how many times more likely to be suspended than white students?
The most common reason for school-based arrests.
What is disorderly conduct?
What was slavery followed by in the South that continued to oppress black communities?
Jim Crow Laws
The "discipline gap," where Black children are more likely to be expelled than their white peers, begins as early as this stage of education.
What is preschool?