Putting names to the issue

So I have talked a lot about the hypotheticals of the school to prison pipeline but I have not give a lot of concrete examples so I decided to put some names to this tragic issue. 
A high school student in Mississippi named Dontadrian Bruce was suspended for five months because a school administrator accused him of being a gang banger (Chile, 2014). The only proof the school had was the fact he flashed “gang signs” in a picture which was actually him flashing his football number. This is just another example of the school to prison pipeline. A student was suspended for five months just because of an accusation that had very little proof to back it up. This makes me wonder how the school thought they were helping? They were depriving a child of school all because of something that was not even proven. Punishments are not given until someone is proven guilty in the real world so why should you not give a student the same courtesy in a school. Schools are supposed to prepare children for the real world, not treat them unjustly. This can only result in making the child jaded towards school and life in general. I do not understand how the school though that this would achieve anything other than that. Unfortunately, this kind of stuff such as expulsions and suspensions are normal in schools with zero tolerance policy (Cole, 2018). 
Another horrifying instance of the jail to prison pipeline is the story of a thirteen year old girl with autism named Krystin Polk (Chile, 2014). She was handcuffed and detained after the school resource officer found her after running away from the school for the second time that day (Chile, 2014). First of all, this girl was thirteen and it was definitely unnecessary to detain her for twenty four hours after the fact. She also had autism so I am sure she was terrified and did not really know what was going on. These just seem like extreme consequences for a young girl who clearly is not old enough to be spending a night detained. This just does not seem like an appropriate punishment for what the girl did and I also feel like the school should focus on keeping an eye on their students and making sure that Krystin does not run away from school. 
Another story, which I find extremely ludicrous is the story of a fourteen year old boy named Ahmed Mohamed. He brought a clock in a brief case to school to show his engineering teacher and was arrested and questioned for allegedly staging a bomb hoax (Michels, 2018). This was obviously blown very wildly out of proportion. It is honestly appalling how this stuff happens to young children in schools. School is not supposed to be a place where you are scared of getting arrested but that is honestly what it is becoming. This boy just wanted to impress his teacher and bring something interesting to school. The officer could have just asked to see the brief case or maybe talked to the boy instead of the actual end result which was obviously blown wildly out of proportion. I feel like the involvement of the authorities should have been the very last possible option. Children are not some dangerous criminals that we should fear. Grown adult should be able to handle most of them and their behavioral issues with the exception of extreme circumstances. 

To conclude, these are all terrible examples of the school to prison pipeline. I think this really puts it in to perspective about how imperative it is that this issue be solved immediately. I feel that this really makes me wonder how involved should law enforcement be in schools?
References
Chile, N. (2014). 5 horrible examples of the school to prison pipeline. Atlanta Black Star. Retrieved from https://atlantablackstar.com/2014/11/17/5-horrible-examples-school-prison-pipeline/5/
Lisa, N. C. (2018). Understanding the school-to-prison pipeline. ThoughtCo. Retrieved from 
https://www.thoughtco.com/school-to-prison-pipeline-4136170
Michels, P. (2018). Teen clockmaker arrested in one of texas’ most punitive school districts. Texas Observer. Retrieved from https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texasobserver.org/teen-clockmaker-arrested-in-one-of-texas-most-punitive-school-districts/amp/

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