The Importance Of Youth Education

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George Santayana “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child”. Very often we hear that youth or educated youth is the future of any giving society. A country where discrimination against a participation population and self-superiority of another reign could bring a different outcome. An outcome where a particular group of people are marginalized because of their skin color. In such case even the education system is contributing to devalorize or marginalize such populations. Youth education should not be done only on school institutions, but also at homes. Parents should be the first educators of their children otherwise the future of the country would be at risk. In this paper I will emphasize how the education system contributes …show more content…

Youth can be incarcerated for even minor behavior. East Mississippi officials operate the “school-to-prison pipeline” that imprison youth Black and Hispanic students for disciplinary infringements as minor as dress code breach, said the U.S Justice Department (Los Angeles Times, 2012). The zero tolerance which gives birth to the “school-to-prison pipeline” set to discriminate, for the detriment of Black and Hispanic so called the minority. For example two middle-schoolers push each other a White and a Black; the white gets a three-day, in-school suspension and the other is arrested and suspended, out of-school for ten days ( Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, 2013). In addition, according America Tonight, eight Black students were arrested at Enloe High School in Raleigh North Carolina for a water balloon fight due to rumor that the balloons would be filled with bleach or urine. However, school officials and law enforcement later said that they have no evidence of the balloons being filled with urine or bleach (Caroline Cooper, 2015). These example elicited the vulnerability of Black and Hispanic youth. “An educated enlightened population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy”. Nelson

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