#high school sucked

[reasonsforhope]

"Research on a police diversion program implemented in 2014 shows a striking 91% reduction in in-school arrests over less than 10 years.

Across the United States, arrest rates for young people under age 18 have been declining for decades. However, the proportion of youth arrests associated with school incidents has increased.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, K–12 schools referred nearly 230,000 students to law enforcement during the school year that began in 2017. These referrals and the 54,321 reported school-based arrests that same year were mostly for minor misbehavior like marijuana possession, as opposed to more serious offenses like bringing a gun to school.

School-based arrests are one part of the school-to-prison pipeline, through which students—especially Black and Latine students and those with disabilities—are pushed out of their schools and into the legal system.

Getting caught up in the legal system has been linked to negative health, social, and academic outcomes, as well as increased risk for future arrest.

Given these negative consequences, public agencies in states like Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania have looked for ways to arrest fewer young people in schools. Philadelphia, in particular, has pioneered a successful effort to divert youth from the legal system.

Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program

In Philadelphia, police department leaders recognized that the city’s school district was its largest source of referrals for youth arrests. To address this issue, then–Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel developed and implemented a school-based, pre-arrest diversion initiative in partnership with the school district and the city’s department of human services. The program is called the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program, and it officially launched in May 2014.

Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker named Bethel as her new police commissioner on Nov. 22, 2023.

Since the diversion program began, when police are called to schools in the city for offenses like marijuana possession or disorderly conduct, they cannot arrest the student involved if that student has no pending court case or history of adjudication. In juvenile court, an adjudication is similar to a conviction in criminal court.

Instead of being arrested, the diverted student remains in school, and school personnel decide how to respond to their behavior. For example, they might speak with the student, schedule a meeting with a parent, or suspend the student.

A social worker from the city also contacts the student’s family to arrange a home visit, where they assess youth and family needs. Then, the social worker makes referrals to no-cost community-based services. The student and their family choose whether to attend.

Our team—the Juvenile Justice Research and Reform Lab at Drexel University—evaluated the effectiveness of the diversion program as independent researchers not affiliated with the police department or school district. We published four research articles describing various ways the diversion program affected students, schools, and costs to the city.

Arrests Dropped

In our evaluation of the diversion program’s first five years, we reported that the annual number of school-based arrests in Philadelphia decreased by 84%: from nearly 1,600 in the school year beginning in 2013 to just 251 arrests in the school year beginning in 2018.

Since then, school district data indicates the annual number of school-based arrests in Philadelphia has continued to decline—dropping to just 147 arrests in the school year that began in 2022. That’s a 91% reduction from the year before the program started.

We also investigated the number of serious behavioral incidents recorded in the school district in the program’s first five years. Those fell as well, suggesting that the diversion program effectively reduced school-based arrests without compromising school safety.

Additionally, data showed that city social workers successfully contacted the families of 74% of students diverted through the program during its first five years. Nearly 90% of these families accepted at least one referral to community-based programming, which includes services like academic support, job skill development, and behavioral health counseling...

Long-Term Outcomes

To evaluate a longer follow-up period, we compared the 427 students diverted in the program’s first year to the group of 531 students arrested before the program began. Results showed arrested students were significantly more likely to be arrested again in the following five years...

Finally, a cost-benefit analysis revealed that the program saves taxpayers millions of dollars.

Based on its success in Philadelphia, several other cities and counties across Pennsylvania have begun replicating the Police School Diversion Program. These efforts could further contribute to a nationwide movement to safely keep kids in their communities and out of the legal system."

-via Yes! Magazine, December 5, 2023

#philedelphia #pennsylvania #united states #us politics #school #high school #school to prison pipeline #prison system #arrests #education #students #schools #good news #hope #rare case of police not completely sucking #police #policing #law enforcement

[unknowngenius85]

To the boys / men in high school who had/pretended to have interest in me and called me a stalker, ignored me when I called a lot, hung up on me, or lost their shit at me for whatever reason they felt was justified because I didn't understand what they were asking me and told me to never call again. I didn't understand what was going on. Why didn't you just say something? Why didn't you try to talk to me about calling too much? Why didn't you try to help me understand why you were acting the way you were. Why did you expect me to take a hint? You broke my heart over and over again. I felt like I was broken and unloveable. I still do.

I hope that you have a daughter who is nuerodivergent like me and is crying because the boy she likes did those things to her that you did to me and you remember me. That you remember in detail what you did in colorful detail and it makes you realize what you did to a girl that just wanted to be loved and wanted in a world where people like her very rarely are and you are ashamed.

#mental health #autistic spectrum #my writing #autistic women #nuerodivergent #bad karma #unwanted #anxious #socially awkward #high school #high school sucked

[raiiny-bay]

alien emoji

#ts4 #simblr #ts4 edit #ts4 render #sims 4 #myedits #AUverse #bow #dhestyn #kelly #sue #gaston #good news i didn't forget how to make things #this still isn't the band edit i had planned to do but idk it's kind of fun i guess #i used the blender compositor for some of the effects :-) #looking at it now it kind of ended up being an unintentional remake of that one bandAU edit i did forever ago #i never did like that one #the lighting was. not good. #but anyway! look at me posting my other OCs for once! #stella & marky are not in the band but #stella sells merch for them at their shows & marcus very lovingly tells them how much their music sucks #btw they actually are a band in canon. they perform in their high school talent show & everything #they don't get big at all though & they kind of just... give up on it after a while #kel is the only one out of the 5 of em who actually knows anything about making music #so they were doomed from the start really #this AU is literally the exact same as canon but they get mildly famous #probably played at warped tour or something when that was still a thing lol

[californiannostalgia]

seems to me like zac oyama is repping some experiences of asian american schoolkids, defined by such hits like 'regulate your anger,' 'communicate clearer to deliberately misunderstanding assholes,' and 'perpetual sense of unbelonging in both the american part and the asian part of your life.'

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy #zac oyama #gorgug thistlespring #great stuff! I can't watch that shit for entertainment #the asian american strugglebus... feeling like an alien hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahha #this is just surface level ​personal experience ofc like maybe I had a very specific version of childhood #oh yeah did i mention the Designated Role you get in school lol that's fun for literally nobody who ever attended school schools suck #but education is good! try not to drop out or at least get geds they help college is a good thing check out crash course on youtube #panic rambling in the tags tonite #my thoughts #talking about my asian-ness makes me so nervous my westernized brain is yelling 'shut up! shut up!' #I enjoy gorgug being rage-ful as a treat #asian things

[thepringlesofblood]

feel free to add more, I just think it's funny that there's at least 3 musicals that have a 'high school is extremely bad' song and in 2 of them multiple teenagers die and in all 3 multiple teenagers get grievously injured. like they weren't kidding that high school really do hell.

#i didn't include any from mean girls bc none of them really have a big 'high school sucks' section #'where do you belong' is close but they mostly just describe things rather than pointing out how bad they are #or ascribing that badness to high school as a concept' #personally i think if you set a musical in high school #you are legally obligated to have a song where you acknowledge that the concept of high school is bonkers #original post #heathers #bmc #be more chill #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #also someone still gets grievously injured in mean girls even though it's not like. horror or dark comedy #like all these other ones are #which i think is hilarious #you can't have high school without serious bodily harm #they're also all opening numbers that are like half dialogue

[green-crocs12]

(inspo was itfsism on twt!!)

close ups under the cut btw just in case you can’t read it 😭

#they’re so cute #gojos just happy that megs has found a loving bf #and sukuna is calling yuji a suck up twink #but they don’t care #itafushi #yuji x megumi #yuji itadori #megumi fushiguro #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu kaisen art #jujutsu kaisen comic #jjk memes #funny idk #they’re in love <3 #high school relationships are hard

[armyofpsychictrashcans]

People who think that Rowan got into a relationship with Malakai just to fuck with amerie may have misunderstood what the phrase "forget Amerie" means.

#also that idea just sucks straight up lol #Like Rowan is FAAAR from a saint but even his brother hallucination shipped them be so fuckin fr lmao #Also i thought they were cute im sorry #despite them being kind of boring #anyways Rolerie endgame..? #heartbreak high #heartbreak high spoilers #heartbreak high season 2 #heartbreak high s2 spoilers #rowan rambles #amerie wadia #malakai mitchell #mf was making googly-eyes at Malakai while writing forget ameria in the pit OPEN THE SCHOOLS!

[melancholy--lion]

If you saw this on the Dropout Discord, no you didn't. But I have to talk about the family dynamics and relationships in this last episode of Fantasy High because I can't stop thinking about it.

Okay but seriously, the conversation with Sklonda and the one with Aelwyn have me feeling all sorts of ways thanks to my weird mix of developmental trauma. They hit SO HARD

I can't stop thinking about how Aelwyn felt like she had to move out not because anyone did anything wrong at Mordrid Manor, but because they were too kind and nice to her. Like there's this incredibly confusing and impossible to articulate combination of despair, confusion, disgust, jealousy, and shame that comes from being in a place that loves and accepts you for you after being in a place that didn't for so long. And how even if you know logically that the place is safe and you are loved, your body just doesn't believe it and you're constantly on edge and overwhelmed. It's painfully relatable as someone with that experience. I've never seen someone else relate or put those feelings into words before but I feel so seen.

Sklonda just caring so deeply about her son and being so worried and also so frustrated with her son's friends is just heartbreaking. And her not liking that they call him Ball is just icing on the cake. Because in reality, it's not a very kind nickname, seeing as it comes from Riz being bullied. And even though Riz has reclaimed it, the scars are still healing for Sklonda and that's deep too. That hit real hard too!

OH and don't even get me started on Fabian being neglected. His mom called FIG AND NOT HIM?! OH MY GOD IT HURTS! The role play this season hurts SO GOOD!!

#all I'm saying is thank god I have therapy tomorrow #very grateful to my friends and also to be in a happier and healthier place now than I ever was with my family in my life #but it's still so hard to truly accept love and I'm so grateful for Adaine and Aelwyn for having a story that I can see myself in #Even though my mom and I are no contact I still think about her sometimes #Like she sucks but she did advocate hard for me when I was being bullied in school and I'm grateful for that #dimension 20 #d20 #d20 fantasy high #Fantasy high junior year #fhjy #d20 fhjy #dimension 20 fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fhjy ep 10 #fhjy 10 #adaine abernant #fabian seacaster #riz gukgak #aelwyn abernant #sklonda gukgak #brian murphy #lou wilson #siobhan thompson

[smile-files]

a doodle of my new teardrop gjinka!! i think they turned out pretty cute :)

#dandy’s doodles #bfdi #battle for dream island #bfdi teardrop #bfdi td #bfdi gjinka #bfdi humie #bfdi human #bfdi humanized #bfdi humanization #kin #my old design for them was charming and campy but i think it was too edgy for them #like yeah td’s the hoodie type but she would wear brighter colors than that. and she’s too active to wear jeans or whatever i had her in #they’re definitely a bit of a sneakerhead… but in a practical way. they need good kicks #i’m imagining her and her newbie alliance clique in high school… #lollipop is popular and gets gelatin and td acquainted with the popular crowd but the three of them decide they all suck #lolly’s really good at math and is everyone’s crush. gelatin is addicted to his 3ds and is the life of the party. #and td is well-rounded in school subjects but an absolute expert at destroying you in gym class (she’s also on the track team with needle) #teardrop and lolly watch lesbian anime together. sometimes td gets to third-wheel when flower gets invited #all three newbie alliance members hijack the prom and play 100 gecs on the speakers #etc. i could go on

[aq2003]

#1 killer of toxic masculinities

#fabian seacaster #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high season 2 #fantasy high sophomore year #fhsy #fh #my art #forgot to post this here even though this is like the first and only time ive managed to draw shoes well #also re: the sword i thought it would be cool if i just drew something radically different in every kind of way from a pirate sword #i know fuck all about elven aesthetics but also this particular fantasy setting is set in a high school so i can just make things up <3 #also i spent 4 million years on the shape of the blanket to make the composition not suck it was a nightmare

[pangolinsandnewts]

I heard we were discussing the disaster that would be movieverse llorumi so Im posting my au version!

After Lloyd reveals his identity Harumi's parents are like. Go date the green ninja it'll be good pr. And so they go to the school dance and do one awkward slow dance together and then harumi immediately dips! Good times

#Anuras movie au #ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago fanart #harumi ninjago #lloyd garmadon #The fun thing about movie llorumi is that you can explore all the interesting ways high school relationships suck ass

[gaymakima]

we really got one crumb of rosebird content before RT shut down. toxic yuri so doomed by the narrative that it dooms the narrative itself. iconic. summer tops.

#rwby #rosebird #raven branwen #summer rose #feelings on this are complicated #rt was a massive part of my formative years. my high school friends were also big on it #i was watching rvb10 when the first rwby trailer dropped #even tho i fell out of love with rwby and choose to stick to my own specific corner #its... man idk this sucks #hope they manage to sell it to a company and also keep crwby #and hope those laid off can find new secure jobs soon

[doberbutts]

Like the whole "DOOM runs on anything" meme is funny sure but technically you can run any program on any machine that has the processor, memory, and storage space for it. You may need to tweak some thing here and there to get it fully operational but really that's mostly what it hinges on.

I turned my windows netbook into a Debian server and then turned *that* into cloud-based storage I could dump and share and run any files I wanted to off my internet connection when I was in college by tying an external hard drive to it using an always-on connection. I still technically have the hard drive but I sold the netbook a long time ago. I also turned my MacBook from college into an always-on minecraft server for my college friends before Microsoft decided to give us actual multi-player support.

I also turned my MacBook into a windows OS emulator when I wanted to game because I got annoyed that Mac ports are usually poopoobad quality. So I would turn my MacBook on and then load up my windows os inside of the Mac os and then actually load the game.

Like yeah I went to school for programming but I actually learned how to do most of that as a kid because my dad had a computer that had no GUI, it was all command prompt and DOS. There are times when my current windows computers are annoying me because they won't do the thing I told them to do so I load up dos and then effectively go "I wasn't asking" at it.

#granted #I also taught myself html and css as a kid #and found javascript to be grating but otherwise understandable #sql and c++ was in high school when I went to tech school for programming #but anyway my point is that this stuff isn't super hard #the most annoying portion waa converting the netbook into a server #and only because its processor sucked so it really did not like the commands I was giving it #but it was also a 50 dollar laptop so like. deal. and do what I said.

[lazylittledragon]

i don't think ANY franchise should be considered good or revolutionary enough to be able to put aside blatant antisemitism/racism/queerphobia/etc etc ETC but harry potter is absolutely NOT it

#ramble #wHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT #HP KINDA SUCKS #LIKE A LOT #IT'S NOT GOOD #AND AGAIN #YOUR CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ARE NOT WORTH PEOPLE'S LIVES #THINK ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE FOR ONE BLOODY MINUTE #why are you setting aside basic moral decency for joanne's high school purity circlejerk #adults who are into harry potter are the same people who think marvel s the peak of cinema #not to sound like a snob but i promise there's better literature out there

[broflovski-brah]

me after reading y’all’s high school aus:

#south park #eric cartman #stan marsh #kyle broflovski #kenny mccormick #im sorry but your high school aus suck #planes trains and automobiles

[unorthodoxx-page]

The Long Fight is LIVE

Summary:

Donnie walks in undisturbed, his headphones thumping a fast and loud beat before the turtle collapses on the couch. “It’s the wrestling team,” Donnie answers the unasked question with a yawn, and Splinter marvels at the fact that the boy can hear anything at all. “They won’t let him compete. Hell, they hardly let him scrimmage half the time.”

“Language,” Splinter frowns. Another crash echoes through the home and he takes a worried step forward. “But why? The videos you’ve shown me look very good. He never loses!”

“Take a guess,” Donnie snorts. He turns his phone sideways and the screen sparks to life with a small pixeled soldier. “Honestly, I don’t know what he thought was going to happen.” Another crash shakes the sewers and Donnie cranes his neck toward the hallway. “That better not be my stuff!” he shouts.

______

Or, school isn't as fun and accepting as they thought it would be.

-First in a new series of shorts for the possible High School shenanigans the boys might get into.

#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles mutant mayhem #teenage mutant ninja turtles #fanfic #fanfiction #ao3 #ao3 fic #splinter #raph #donnie #high school sucks and I don't think they're really ready lol