#Florida’s youth legal system needs reform
https://www.splcenter.org/florida-juvenile-justice-system-reform

#schooltoprisonpipeline #carceralstate #abolition #desantistan #fascism

When k-12 teachers go on strike, I always have mixed thoughts.

When I read the demands of the teachers who strike I dually note them, and it all makes sense ( my spouse is an educator--- a sub-- and is treated very poorly on account of being Autistic), YET, the way strikers are going about it is poorly organized.

I think that bringing parents of students into the fight is IMPERATIVE.

The teachers are not the victims of the students. As exploited and manipulated as teachers are, it will never equate the oppression of youth.

Teachers won't be ultimately successful at striking, and winning those strikes, unless they bring their students, and students' families into that fight.

A teacher can't be arrested for repeatedly not showing up to work. A teacher won't lose custody of their family for not showing up to work. Parents do lose custody of children for repeat truancy. Students do have to show up to court for repeated truancy.

(This next part is especially toward educators)

NORMALIZE STUDENTS NOT SHOWING UP TO SCHOOL. NORMALIZE STUDENTS PROTESTING THAT SYSTEM.

Don't over explain and explain and explain how you're undervalued as an educator and then in a different post, talk about the problems of truancy and students "giving up".

It seems like you had no problem with being part of the school to prison pipeline as long as it benefitted you.

You all sound like you want increased pay and benefits for being the children's prison guards

Hypocrisy and double standards smell worse than fresh dogs' droppings on a hot summer day.

#Education #PublicSchool #Teachers #Covid #Strike #TeachersStrike #union #Students #HomeSchool #Disability #SubstituteTeacher #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Disabled #SchoolToPrisonPipeline #PrisonComplex #PrisonSystem #Prison #ForProfit #Michigan #LowIncome #Poverty #GOP #Politics #vote #truancy #LegalSystem #LongCOVID #LeweysDementia #Health #HealthCare #SNAP #Welfare #Edustaff #TempJobs #TempAgency #Economy #EducationIndustry #CommonCore #StandardizedTests #Test #college #HR #America #USA #Ohio #NTA

Bobby Bostic teaches writing and mentors incarcerated kids. He matters to them because his story resonates with them. He was in prison for three decades. He tries to inspire them to write for change.

The Marshall Project wrote about him here:
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/10/20/how-i-use-my-story-to-teach-incarcerated-kids-that-writing-matters

More about Bobby:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Bostic

Bobby’s new book, “Humbled To The Dust: Still I Rise”:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198286022-humbled-to-the-dust

#Incarceration #Prison #SchoolToPrisonPipeline #Writing #Author #Mentoring #BobbyBostic #MarshallProject

https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/27/childhood-trauma-is-prisons-common-denominator/

#SchoolToPrisonPipeline: Prisons are filled with people who society failed a long time ago. Parents, teachers, social workers, school counselors, police officers or lawmakers could have helped them but didn’t. Protecting children is the most crucial duty of any adult in a community. 
#AbolishThePrisons

Here in the US, I feel rage when white +nonBlack people like to watch our Black bodies do sports, sing, + dance, but try to police how we use the symbols of the various cultures of Black folks, like with our hair

https://youtu.be/80b_Ei4AiTg?si=7BWu69dydL1GimSv

#BIPOC
#BlackMastodon #culture #dreadlocks #braids #twists #strands #CoIoredHair #4C_Hair #4BHair #3C_Hair #AfroHair #TexturedHair #SchoolToPrisonPipeline #Caucasity #conformity #WhiteNonsense #education