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Juvenile Injustice in Florida: Tackling the School-To-Prison Pipeline
November 16, 2021 at 6:00 pm
The school-to-prison pipeline imposes harsh disciplinary practices on primarily Black and Latino students to push them out of school and into the criminal justice system. It remains one of the most glaring civil rights abuses of the 21st century.
In Florida, school officials, police officers, and prosecutors have many tools at their disposal to surveil, arrest, and incarcerate public school students. Even with the pandemic challenges, schoolchildren have found themselves banished to Zoom detentions, arrested for failing to complete homework assignments, or handcuffed by police officers patrolling hallways.
Join us for Juvenile Injustice in Florida: Tackling the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Student advocates and a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist will analyze the punitive and exclusionary discipline that schoolchildren across America face, their historical antecedents, and the obstacles unique to Florida students. Panelists will also discuss how communities can dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline and implement more restorative policies that would benefit students in need of educational support.
Panel members include:
Kathleen McGrory, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, Tampa Bay Times
David Meltsner, doctoral candidate in the UF History Department and Graham Center Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellow
Michelle Morton, Research Coordinator and Policy Counsel, ACLU Florida
The event will be moderated by Dr. David Canton, director of the African American Studies program at the University of Florida.