School-to-prison pipeline widens in Cincinnati

I and many other Americans spent the 2010s fighting against the school-to-prison pipeline. The fascism of the 2020s has set our hard work back by generations.

At a meeting last week, Cincinnati school board members voted 6 to 1 to keep armed police in schools – even though studies showed that placing armed cops in schools is not useful. This also came after school police fell under scrutiny for racist practices.

Like so many other things, the school-to-prison pipeline has only gotten worse over the years. Some folks insist things were just as bad in the 1970s, but they forget that I was alive then and I'm old enough to remember that America was much freer then. The University of Connecticut Center for Education Policy Analysis says that in 1975, only 1% of American schools reported having police on site, but that number had ballooned to 58% by 2018. In fact, Cincinnati was one of the first school districts to fall to these pressures.

School police have also come under fire for arresting youths for acts that are not even criminal.

America has become a totalitarian police state where every move is controlled, and no institution exemplifies it more than our broken schools. We are at war with the monsters who run our schools, and we must step up our efforts against these child abusers. Shame on the unseemly goblins who run our schools.

If anyone needs to be armed, it's the students.