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i'm convinced of the guardian is the best publication in the world but anyway
i recently they talked about the school to prison pipeline which is something
that we've discussed before but they do really great detailed report on the
number of us school age students
who are getting arrested uh... in taxes
and they're getting arrested for crazy things
including spring perfume on themselves and clocks out there that how dare the
maximum security now this is something i'm fascinated by right because whenever
you see kids being arrested and given classy misdemeanors high index almost
profiting from the right side first i thought it has to be the for-profit
reasons it has to be but when it comes to juvenile detention center centers in
the state of texas
there's only one private juvenile detention center that only houses about
one hundred forty-five
kicks cell it's not the for-profit prisons in this case but here's what it
is
is that addresses this uh... of revenue generation
mondays so what's happening is they need to generate revenue right texas' is
always talked about how they have low taxes and it's great because you know
that
people have financial freedom their donating a financial freedom they're
finding came
to give classy misdemeanor sealed so they pay the fine and the state generate
as much revenue as possible from that if disappointed backing out to a school
will i would have been arrested
every other
i mean people here the rest of the leading class your kidney you get
arrested for are being absent you get arrested for spring perfume on yourself
you get arrested for uh... cussing at other students
optically dot it's if you know they rested and if you don't get sent to a
juvenile detention center
you most certainly get a fine right and you have to get out fine you have to
shop to court so let me give you some more details on this story that i found
fascinating an article uh... in twenty ten the police state three hundred
thousand classy misdemeanors two children as young as six in the state of
texas
alright the number of school districts with their political east apartments
rose twenty percent in the last two decades think about that all of the
school districts have their own many police departments
that focused on giving these students tickets so they can take these clients
by the way subsidies in texas have actually shut their police departments
are complete
they grew up with the farms inside the school's one two six zero zero but the
right
cos they make money off of it
they've figured out a money-making system but they're not raising taxes
because the politicians have to say they're not raising taxes so what are
they doing his own mit romney trick in massachusetts everybody now almost all
the republican governors who tortured democrats to do for the republican
voters so they can say they don't raise taxes august increased finds what what
what so you know if you're a big got parking violations increase the files
moving violations increase the fonts uh... school violations one down on
their misdemeanors are there not just your is his spending your me month yet
is that i think so much money on this i had a
policemen inside
useful just like it right out these tickets so we can criminalized her six
year olds
they get paid for doing it's a win-win for both teachers school administrators
and also for the state because the state is making money and then the teachers
and administrators can just have a knee-jerk reaction to everything
not have to go through the process of discipline in the sense is the idea of
how the police this little girls break for a few moments of the spirit of her
and what other terrible part of this is that the makes her kids and the robots
you know don't question authority don't do anything going to do something even
slightly out of step with what a teacher wants except your for committing a
misdemeanor you'll be fine and especially for the poor middle class
kids those flights can be devastating let me tell you guys how students to
have been arrested while they were in school
do not have the opportunity to get federal financial aid when they apply
for college
so released his them over and here's another way to discuss these kids over
what happens is it let's say it is a fork of poor family and they do not have
the money necessary if he was fine what happens is they put the find on hold
until the student is seventeen years old and then when the students seventeen
they've thrown in jail paul for statement
just when you thought i couldn't get any worse right
so why are we doing that were locked up half the country