The Druid Hills Presbyterian Church has featured racial justice among children this October.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Oct. 6, the Druid Hills Presbyterian Church has highlighted racial justice with published information on its bulletin.

The church wrote on its Facebook post that children across the country had started the school year in the previous few months.

On the other hand, schools frequently fail to deliver an equal education to all students, it added.

The church emphasized taking a moment to learn about the school-to-prison pipeline and the systems that often prevent students of color from succeeding in school.

It also asked people how they can help not only students of color but also teachers of color in the classroom.

Support programs that enable diverse teaching staff to thrive and look for ways to guarantee that the material offered to kids in schools depicts students from various backgrounds, the church underscored.

School to Prison Pipeline

The American Civil Liberties Union is dedicated to stopping the "school-to-prison pipeline," an unfortunate nationwide trend in which children are forced from public classrooms into the juvenile and criminal justice systems, according to the Druid Hills Presbyterian Church.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, many children have learning difficulties or have previously suffered poverty, abuse, or neglect and would benefit from additional educational and therapeutic programming.

The union recounted that instead, they are segregated, reprimanded, and expelled.

The American Civil Liberties Union said minor breaches of school regulations are criminalized under "zero-tolerance" policies, and officers in schools result in pupils being criminalized for behavior that should be handled inside the school.

It added push-out tendencies and disciplinary practices that discriminate against students of color are particularly dangerous.

Fighting Systematic Racism in K-12

The Druid Hills Presbyterian Church also cited the Center for American Progress organization to fight systematic racism in K-12 education.

According to the Center for American Progress, the recent nationwide protests against police brutality have resulted in a substantial shift in discourse and ideas concerning racial inequity in the United States.

While it may be premature to call these debates a wake-up call, the group claims that books about race and racism are flying off the shelves, that millions of posts on social media proclaim that Black Lives Matter and that Americans in at least 1,700 communities across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. are marching in the streets to protest generations of racial injustice.

According to the Center for American Progress, the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and others have generated calls for fundamental improvements in policing, and criminal justice policy increased support for them.

For decades, many Black leaders and Black-led organizations in communities across the country have worked to bring about these improvements, it added.

It bared that it is crucial for newly invigorated allies, particularly those who aren't Black, to go beyond hashtag activism and get involved in this work by listening to community members' voices and learning about the history, origins, and consequences of institutional racism in the United States.

Those interested in viewing the notes featured by the church may visit the Druid Hills Presbyterian Church's Facebook post.

 

 

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