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the school to prison pipeline that starts in early childhood

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OPINION: Let’s never see another first-grader in handcuffs

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Shantel Meek and Roy L. Austin Jr. October 15, 2019March 30, 2020

Two first-graders in Florida are not the same children today as they were last month. Consider the distress, fear and confusion that being forcibly taken, handcuffed and driven away from your school by a police officer would cause in any 6-year-old you know. Imagine it’s your child, your grandchild. We both worked in the Obama […]

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