Being Bad: My Baby Brother And The School To Prison Pipeline Chapter Summary

Disproportionate discipline refers to the tendency of students who belongs to a particular demographic group, who are more prone to face harsher or more exclusionary discipline compared to students who belong to other demographic groups even when committing a comparable offense. Although this phenomenon has existed for centuries, activist groups like Black Lives Matter, a group that campaigns against violence and systemic racism toward black people, has recently shed light on this issue. That would be an ideal reason to select this book. However, I chose this book for a more personal reason. In Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, the author, Crystal Laura tell the story of her younger brother, Chris, and his journey from systems of education to systems of criminal justice. I was attracted to this book because of the similarities between our brother's stories. For me, it was my older brother who followed a similar path. I remember my sixteen-year-old self and the anxiety, sadness and pure terror of walking into the Miami-Dade Prison. Twenty years later, the memory is just as vivid has if it occurred yesterday. Her portrayal of her visits to see Chris is one reason I connected with the book. She referred to the idea that the room was called the "visiting room" which was a euphemism, for the area lack the welcoming

Teachers as ethnographers find ways to understand the depth and complexity of students, while teacher as amateurs learn from their students just as their students learn from them. Employing these strategies can create a learner-centered classroom that engages all learners. This approach may not work for all students. However, the idea that there are different approaches to teaching and learning and one-size doesn't fit all can save countless students from the