Teachers and educators are being taken for granted. Our money is going to prisons rather than to the people who educate our up and coming generation? That is ridiculous. Our government stresses that education is so "important" but fail to demonstrate that based on their actions.
If you skip and view the video at 7:46 it states "California spends $216,000 on each child in the juvenile justice system and only $8,000 on each child in Oakland public schools." That is a $208,000 difference between those two different causes.
I went to the source of the video, www.justicepolicy.org, and found out even more interesting things. The website states that "In 2008, over 93,000 young people were incarcerated and states spend about $5.7 billion each year imprisoning youth, even though the majority are held for nonviolent offenses."
What type of message is this sending to society? The children who mess up are worth more than those going down the right path? Are the people that we spend so much money to house in prisons even guilty?
