3L Dan Goaslind published an an op-ed in the Deseret News titled, “My view: Have we crippled our kids with a school to prison pipeline?” Goaslind’s editorial focuses on excessive and inconsistent school discipline in Utah.
Kids who drop out of school are 3.5 times more likely to be arrested in adulthood. A shocking 80 percent of the American prison population does not have a high school diploma. These sobering statistics lead us to wonder if we have institutionally crippled our children by creating this “school to prison pipeline.”