48. What can we do to break the school-to-prison pipeline?
May 4, 2022
School suspension is the number one predictor of whether a child will drop out of school, become reliant on social services, or spend time in prison as an adult. Still, students as young as four-years-old lose 11 million instructional days to out-of-school suspensions each year. And when they do, they take the first steps down a path toward the criminal justice system. What can we do to break the “school-to-prison pipeline?” In this episode, Jonathan Cabrera, founder, and CEO of Abstract Lifestyle, professor, rapper, and community activist, joins Kevin to discuss how we can engage troubled youth in ways that keep them from seeing the inside of a prison cell.