VOICE OUT! Training & Empowering Youth to Become Citizen Data-Journalists

VOICE OUT!
School to Prison Pipeline

Where can we tell our stories?

The school-to-prison pipeline describes the disturbing national trend wherein children and teens are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Youths with learning disabilities or histories of poverty, abuse or neglect would benefit from additional educational and counseling services. Instead, they are isolated, punished and pushed out. “Zero-tolerance” policies criminalize minor infractions of school rules, while high-stakes testing programs encourage educators to push out low-performing students to improve their schools’ overall test scores. Students of color and queer students are especially vulnerable to push-out trends and the discriminatory application of discipline.

Online media platforms, including video, visual, audio, comics, and so on, provide places to tell our stories.

Sources

Skills

  • sharing media you create about everyday injustices you experience and witness online, with a focus on video

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