Marilyn Elias 'School To Prison Pipeline'

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“School to Prison Pipeline” Objective Summary Draft 1 In the article “School to Prison Pipeline” by Marilyn Elias, the author describes discrimination within the school to prison pipeline, how the number of students ending up in the pipeline has increased in the past few generations and how teachers could be the answer to this problem. Elias outlines how children with disabilities only make up 8.6 percent of students in public schools, but they make up 32 percent of children in juvenile detention centers. (Paragraph 13) This shows the discriminations within schools that are targeting specific groups to send into the school to prison pipeline. Elias highlights how the use of suspension as a way of disciplining students has increased since