Chapter 5 and Epilogue
Hello readers! Welcome to my final blog post! Today I will be reflecting on my final thoughts regarding Pushout . I will do this by answering a question that I continually asked myself throughout the text. How do you prevent the criminalization of black girls in schools? Monique Morris addresses this question in depth in the final chapter. I appreciated this because I could not help but notice that throughout Pushout Morris raises concerns about many issues, but she never offers solutions. However, Morris provided an extensive explanation elaborating upon solutions in Chapter 5. Morris constantly references the school to prison pipeline, so one way to prevent criminalization could be giving girls access to good education in prison. As I discussed in my previous blog, the education in juvenile detention centers simply is not adequate. Black girls spend a couple months of their lives in these facilities, but the terrible education they receive makesthe transition back to normal sc...