A school district in Colorado called the police on a Black boy for bringing a toy gun to school. Except he never left his home. He was sitting on his couch.
This is the “School to Prison Pipeline” that Black children face: “data shows that the criminalization of Black youth in schools is real. Apart from the strains imposed by remote learning, Black students are disciplined and arrested at school at disproportionately high levels, an analysis of federal data from 2017 by the Education Week Research Center finds. ‘In 28 states, the share of arrested students who are Black is at least 10% higher than their share of enrollment in schools with at least one arrest,’ the report found. ‘In 10 of those states, that gap is at least 20%.’”