Youth Radio's Rynesha Snowden explains why she finds a connection between her High school policies with her view on Prison Life.
My school feels more like a prison because there’s a strong police presence, if there happens to a fight they don’t just take the students to the principals office they hand cuff you and they take you downtown. We also have to present ID’s just to get inside the school and then keep them on the all times, school is suppose to be a learning experience what does an ID have to do with it. Here is what some of my classmates had to say.
CLASSMATES
It doesn’t make a difference if you see the person everyday and you know they go to the school and new attenders they really don’t have ID’s so how would so why would we have to have an ID to stop and sing our name and show it, just to attend our school.
You know you got your lil’ lanyard so they can identify you but once you in you in ain’t no getting out til the end of school.
RYNESHA
If you forget your ID and your parents can’t bring it to you at school you would get a detention, if you forget it twice you would get suspended, suspended for ID are you serious? It seems like they aren’t here to help us instead our teachers punish us and suppress us like wardens in prison. So what would you say if I said school is like a prison, what would you agree or disagree?
CLASSMATES
Oh yeah I would agree, I would I agree cuz in prison you get discipline for whatever they do and that’s all we get discipline .
RYNESHA
My school even looks like a prison, there are gates with barbwires around the entire campus, all the restrictions and the lack of care from authorities make it feel more like a prison than a school
