My mother was a teacher and her friends and all my aunts were teachers, and they really changed lives: For a long time, school has been considered a potent intervention against poverty, inequality and racism and the intersection of all three.
But like a lot of people, I had lost touch with the fact that schools have been in such decline. I don't think about school discipline, so I didn't know about the school-to-prison pipeline; it was news to me that black, brown and Native American children who are poor are disciplined more harshly than their wealthy or middle class counterparts — as well as poor whites. I was floored by the statistics that show that poor kids are disproportionately dealt with harshly by school systems, when school has been a way out of poverty.
Source : nbcnews
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