Jim's Blog - YDEV501

YDEV 501 WEEK 11: A Reflection on Youth in the System 1. School-to-prison Pipeline It's saddening and infuriating how this concept and system primarily targets people of color (specifically black students) no matter the age and gender. In the few videos I've seen, how some SRO's and police officers deal with these kids are undoubtedly acts of abuse and yet they get away with it because they're the authority(?!). How is it that a lot of these school system and organizations allow and feed into the racial disparity in the criminal justice system? 2. "If they end up in the justice system, it's not because the school system pushed them there." This is a nice way of looking at how it is beneficial for schools to practice restorative justice amongst its students. I just hope that for schools with majority of their students being black (and people of color), that they are actually supporting and doing everything in their power to help them rather than...

YDEV 501 WEEK 10: Leading with... At the beginning of this course, we've read so many articles and research studies on how youth are deemed to be problematic, volatile, disengaged, and dangerous. These stereotypes on how adults label and view young people is part of the reason why society continues to deny teens real role in society, except as consumers and trendsetters. I also vividly remember one stereotype that I've read in one of the readings about how... Age is a positional superiority of adults over adolescents based on age in which adults always come out better, no matter what the particular issues or behaviors. This being said, I am happy to see, read and witness how this stereotype is an utter BS as the youth nowadays are taking matters into their own hands. Young people are being aware on how policy makers are failing to meet their needs and they are demanding for changes and actions to be done about it. It's admirable to see youth (especially given th...