Basketball Quote by Jesse Jackson

Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons, low-income jobs,…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

— Gale Sayers

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they…

— Wayne LaPierre

Suspension and expulsion are tied to a host of short- and long-term consequences. For some students, zero-tolerance policies in schools lead directly to involvement…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree to which…

— Henry Giroux

It is better to support schools than jails.

— Mark Twain

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other.…

— Mark Twain

For digital natives, public schools are jails

— Bing Gordon

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

— Henry Giroux

The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions -…

— Jamaal Bowman

Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are…

— Michelle Alexander

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

— Jim DeMint