Education: Some Children Are Deliberately Left Behind!

School is the first public place that many children get the opportunity to demonstrate mastery and competence outside of their early family environment. The Ugly Fact is that deliberate decision to leave children, who struggle academically, behind by withholding personal engagement with teachers and school-based resources results in early school failure. Early failure in the American Education System (AES) typically leads to disillusionment, frustration, withdrawal, and acting out for children. So, children often drop out of school socially and emotionally well before they are able to do so physically. Grade retention and administrative discharges ease the way to dropping out altogether. These tactics are examples of institutionalized human behavior (automatic reactions to similarities, differences, and positive and negative stereotypes) which perpetuates itself, regardless of the players, and deliberate decisions that are made which result in children being left behind in the AES. Children who are deliberately left behind in the AES are prime candidates for the criminal justice system. Join The Ugly Facts With Dr. Jenn as we shine the search light on the role of the American Education System in the prison pipeline!