Ritual Purge: school to prison pipeline

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

It started with a report to the state's Office of the Child Advocate that a child had been expelled from preschool.

Jamey Bell, the child advocate, saw no reason why a child that young should be suspended, and wanted to know how widespread the problem was. She also had learned that a 7-year-old had been arrested while at school.

She would soon find out that at least 1,967 students age 6 and under were suspended last school year -- almost all of them black or Hispanic.

http://www.ctmirror.org/story/hundreds-kindergarten-students-suspended-school

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It started with a report to the state's Office of the Child Advocate that a child had been expelled from preschool.

Jamey Bell, the child advocate, saw no reason why a child that young should be suspended, and wanted to know how widespread the problem was. She also had learned that a 7-year-old had been arrested while at school.

She would soon find out that at least 1,967 students age 6 and under were suspended last school year -- almost all of them black or Hispanic.

http://www.ctmirror.org/story/hundreds-kindergarten-students-suspended-school

Wow, that's SO fucked up.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Flowchart:

1.  Are you rich and white?  Y = Go to college.  N = go to step 2.
2.  Can you knuckle under?  Y = Go to step 3.  N = Go to prison, work for $0.50/hour for CCA, for the rest of your natural life, with perhaps one or two small breaks on the "outside".
3.  Are you lucky enough not to get busted by the Kafka-esque system even if you DON'T do something wrong?  Y = Go to step 4.  N = Go to prison, work for $0.50/hour for CCA, for the rest of your natural life, with perhaps one or two small breaks on the "outside".
4.  Join the military, get blown up for Halliburton's bottom line.  Survive?  Y = go to next line.  N = dead.
5.  Come home all fucked up.  Go to prison, work for $0.50/hour for CCA, for the rest of your natural life, with perhaps one or two small breaks on the "outside".
6.  Die.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Early conditioning. "Give me a child until he's five.." etc. 

[deadfong]

Just caught this article.

That was when Andrew Bott — the sixth principal in seven years — showed up, and everything started to change.  "We got rid of the security guards," said Bott, who reinvested all the money used for security infrastructure into the arts.

The end result? Orchard Gardens has one of the fastest student improvement rates statewide. And the students — once described as loud and unruly, have found their focus.

THIS MAN IS THREATENING OUR PIPELINE!

[Doktor Howl]

Just caught this article.

That was when Andrew Bott — the sixth principal in seven years — showed up, and everything started to change.  "We got rid of the security guards," said Bott, who reinvested all the money used for security infrastructure into the arts.

The end result? Orchard Gardens has one of the fastest student improvement rates statewide. And the students — once described as loud and unruly, have found their focus.

THIS MAN IS THREATENING OUR PIPELINE!

He will be accused of inappropriate behavior within a year.

[Ben Shapiro]

Flowchart:

1.  Are you rich and white?  Y = Go to college.  N = go to step 2.
2.  Can you knuckle under?  Y = Go to step 3.  N = Go to prison, work for $0.50/hour for CCA, for the rest of your natural life, with perhaps one or two small breaks on the "outside".
3.  Are you lucky enough not to get busted by the Kafka-esque system even if you DON'T do something wrong?  Y = Go to step 4.  N = Go to prison, work for $0.50/hour for CCA, for the rest of your natural life, with perhaps one or two small breaks on the "outside".
4.  Join the military, get blown up for Halliburton's bottom line.  Survive?  Y = go to next line.  N = dead.
5.  Come home all fucked up.  Go to prison, work for $0.50/hour for CCA, for the rest of your natural life, with perhaps one or two small breaks on the "outside".
6.  Die.

Someone makes this into a chart! I will make print outs for campus!
Must grab attention of twitsters, and also have a Cain touch to it!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Just caught this article.

That was when Andrew Bott — the sixth principal in seven years — showed up, and everything started to change.  "We got rid of the security guards," said Bott, who reinvested all the money used for security infrastructure into the arts.

The end result? Orchard Gardens has one of the fastest student improvement rates statewide. And the students — once described as loud and unruly, have found their focus.

THIS MAN IS THREATENING OUR PIPELINE!

He will be accused of inappropriate behavior within a year.

Without a doubt. There's money involved, here. This man is practically a terrorist, ruthlessly butchering all those lucrative security contracts.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Just caught this article.

That was when Andrew Bott — the sixth principal in seven years — showed up, and everything started to change.  "We got rid of the security guards," said Bott, who reinvested all the money used for security infrastructure into the arts.

The end result? Orchard Gardens has one of the fastest student improvement rates statewide. And the students — once described as loud and unruly, have found their focus.

THIS MAN IS THREATENING OUR PIPELINE!

He will be accused of inappropriate behavior within a year.

Without a doubt. There's money involved, here. This man is practically a terrorist, ruthlessly butchering all those lucrative security contracts.

Yeah. And a GAY MUSLIM SOCIALIST.

[Doktor Howl]

Or maybe not.

Maybe there will be a conveniently-timed and tragic school shooting.  The state will deplore the violence, provide counseling, and move the Gestapo back in.

[Junkenstein]

Just caught this article.

That was when Andrew Bott — the sixth principal in seven years — showed up, and everything started to change.  "We got rid of the security guards," said Bott, who reinvested all the money used for security infrastructure into the arts.

The end result? Orchard Gardens has one of the fastest student improvement rates statewide. And the students — once described as loud and unruly, have found their focus.

THIS MAN IS THREATENING OUR PIPELINE!

He will be accused of inappropriate behavior within a year.

I'll take that bet and say he'll be arrested by the end of this year. I've seen too much shit like that not to automatically assume it's shady and probably quite abusive on the QT. November, I think.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yes, it's pretty much a given that when you see someone acting in the best interests of the poor and oppressed, secretly they're a monster, or at least will soon be found to seem one by the Establishment.

[Junkenstein]

I was more getting at that when changes come in this quickly and "effectively" (Not read much around it yet, do need to know more) there's often a lot of fucked-up fringe cases. It does seem a little odd that the only given reason is a shift in funding too. I would be a bit more open to this guy if he was identifying other factors.

[deadfong]

I was more getting at that when changes come in this quickly and "effectively" (Not read much around it yet, do need to know more) there's often a lot of fucked-up fringe cases. It does seem a little odd that the only given reason is a shift in funding too. I would be a bit more open to this guy if he was identifying other factors.

Well, I don't know if the principal is covering anything up, as I've only seen this one article, but I don't see too much reason for suspicion.  He does admit that test scores are still below average in many areas, but I don't think that was the initial aim of this policy.  The primary goal, I think, was to reduce violence and behavioral problems.  Treating all the students like criminals likely led to a feedback loop in which the student body began to conform to those expectations.  Now that they're being treated like students again, it's not surprising that their behavior has changed.  I think, also, being given access to creative outlets, like art, dance, and music, probably also helped a lot.

[Junkenstein]

It probably has, however I would also take a look at attendance numbers over the past, say 5 years.

The UK has had a tendency to improve schools drastically by shipping out the lowest X% of performing pupils. Drastic improvements/changes in anything seem to be worth questioning generally as the publicly attributed factor is rarely the whole story for me.

I'm pretty sure there have been stories from this year in the US where radical grade/discipline improvement has had some child abuse/physical punishment element to it. Religious/charter(?) schools if I recall correctly.


Parental comment from those involved would be very interesting and I imagine quite telling.