Adolesence Chung

COLUMBIA, SC -- 8/2/16 -- Spring Valley High School, built in 1970, was recently upgraded to accommodate the growing student body. The school is rated as one of the top academic schools in the country.
Throughout the country, states have enacted laws that were meant to stop outside agitators from interfering with schools. Instead these disruptive behavior laws are used against the students that they were meant to protect, disproportionately affecting minority students and jailing them for behavior they are hard wired to do as adolescents. We look at the case of Niya Kenny, who was arrested after videotaping a school police officer brutally removing another student from a math class.…by André Chung #_AC14785

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COLUMBIA, SC -- 8/2/16 -- Spring Valley High School, built in 1970, was recently upgraded to accommodate the growing student body. The school is rated as one of the top academic schools in the country.<br />
Throughout the country, states have enacted laws that were meant to stop outside agitators from interfering with schools. Instead these disruptive behavior laws are used against the students that they were meant to protect, disproportionately affecting minority students and jailing them for behavior they are hard wired to do as adolescents. We look at the case of Niya Kenny, who was arrested after videotaping a school police officer brutally removing another student from a math class.…by André Chung #_AC14785