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A Qualitative Study on

the School-to-Prison
Pipeline
Christian Manigo
Legal Studies Academy
First Colonial High School
April 13, 2019
Presentation Outline

● Summary of Research Paper ● Results


○ Overview of the ○ Themes
school-to-pipeline ○ Major findings
○ Comparative Research ○ Unexpected findings
● Reason for study/Design ● Discussion
○ Understand community’s ○ Implications
perceptions of school discipline ○ Recommendation for future
and the school-to-prison research
pipeline
○ Questions
Summary of Research Paper

● School-to-Prison pipeline
● Zero-tolerance disciplinary policies
● Racial bias
● Implementation of school resource officers
Comparative Research

● South Africa
● Focus on school performance
● Corporal punishment
● The National Education Policy Act (1996)
Study Design

● Qualitative data collection/Research


○ Database research
○ Article reading
○ Interviews
● Development of article
○ Description of research
○ Themes
○ Discussion
Reason for Study

● Understand community’s ● Questions


perceptions of the ○ How were they developed?
school-to-prison pipeline ○ What are the questions?
○ Lack of information ● Participants
involving the community’s ○ School resource officer,
opinions and beliefs parents, jail program
administrators, school
administrators, and teachers
Results of Qualitative Data

1 Zero-tolerance disciplinary policies are an


issue.
2 School resource officers are inadequately
trained to deal with youth in school.
Racial bias in school administration and
3
unidentified disabilities impacts the
manner in which a student is disciplined.
Major Findings

● Discipline should be handled situationally (case by case)


● Unidentified disabilities impacts discipline
● School resource officers look at cases from a criminal perspective
● Students of color are more likely to be disciplined
Unexpected Findings/Occurrences

● Certain racial groups are misunderstood


● Microaggressions in the classroom
Important Quotes

● “...officers are not educators, and they look at things from a criminal
perspective.” - School administrator
● “The zero tolerance policy is not a very smart one, in my opinion,
because it doesn’t teach children about forgiveness and that everybody
is going to make a mistake every once in a while.” - School Counselor
● “I do believe we need to have a common language around how
classrooms and offices are managed and be aware of general
guidelines for behavioral violations in the school, but I do believe that
we need to consider the situational factors and restorative practices in
establishing consequences.” - Teacher
Implications

● What needs to change?


○ Disciplinary practices
● How will discipline change?
○ Situational discipline
○ Case by case
○ Identify disabilities
○ Reduction of bias
Recommendations for Future Research

● Closely examine implicit and explicit bias


● Root causes for misbehavior
● How police officers are trained
Questions?

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