Mississippi Students Arrested for 'Crimes' Including Flatulence, Dress-Code Violations
At least they're learning what it's like to be a modern American
The state of Mississippi ranks 50th in the average salary it pays its public school teachers. There's also, you know, the deep history of poverty and racism and deprivation. So perhaps it is no surprise that Mississippi's public schools are exceedingly quick to arrest students for the most trifling violations.
A new report from the Advancement Project, a civil rights group, says that Mississippi's school's place kids in a "pipeline to prison," using the juvenile criminal justice system as a replacement for normal school discipline. (The state is tops in paddling!) The report includes a litany of minor incidents that ended in outrageous punishments, like the five year-old who was sent home in a police car for "violating dress code" for not having black shoes, even though his mom had tried to color his shoes with a black marker.
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