Criminalization at School: Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies Might Be Damaging to Students

Studies confirmed that lowering attention to students and decreasing resources could result in a decline in academic performance and a decline in behavioral outcomes. Lack of experienced teachers and counselors, advanced guidance, early intervention program, extracurricular activities, safe and well equipped facilities, unsuitable at school failed. In addition, excessive use of pause, expulsion and arrest itself reflects the lack of resources. Ultimately, school shortage funds many students to a second-class educational environment, ignores their needs and prevents them from going to school (NAACP, 2005).

Stephen Hoffman pointed out in his article "zero benefit: estimate the impact of zero tolerance disciplinary policy on national differences in school discipline", "... zero tolerance discipline policy and poor school atmosphere, low student achievement, high A dropout rate is associated ... "In a school of juvenile courts students should follow a series of rules. Court school rules differ from traditional school rules; they are more penalized. Two major issues of juvenile accommodation centers and long-term detention facilities have been discussed and discussed, overcrowding and ineffectiveness. Since the number of minors has increased in the past 15 years, the accommodation period of minors in safe and closed facilities is also increasing. As a result, these systems become populous and overcrowded.

This is exacerbated by the fact that the zero-tolerance student discipline policy has soared in recent decades and the number of school law enforcement officials has increased (in the form of self-regulatory bodies and school resource officers). An increase in the number of arrests and referrals to the Juvenile Court has also raised the possibility of black children going to jail - it is known as "a pipeline from school to jail." The result is clear: 37% of people in color. Among the population of the United States, it accounts for 67% of the prison population

The "zero tolerance" policy criminalizes irregularities in school rules, and school police officers convict their students in acts dealt with in school. Colored students are particularly vulnerable to trends and discriminatory discipline

With the advent of zero tolerance policy, ethnic conflicts in schools have been redefined as a result of individual student crimes. Under the atmosphere created by zero tolerance policy based on cultural misunderstanding and promotion of apartheid structure, understanding of conflict between different ethnic groups is obscured by a framework to treat problematic students as deviations and crimes It was. Students participating in intergroup disputes are no longer considered to require careful training or more exposure, but they are more likely to be considered criminals who need punishment. This transition from one paradigm to another reflects deviations from Apartheid's structural criticism.

For a safe, plain living: Case study of school safety work and its impact on educational reforms Rachel Gerber New York University, rmg 368 @ yuu.edu