Inside the Fight Against the School-to-Prison Pipeline | Voces Media + FRONTLINE

For decades we’ve heard about America's “dropout crisis.” Meet Dr. Victor Rios, a high school “dropout” turned author and professor, who designs programs to support students who've been pushed out of school. To solve our crisis in education, Rios argues, is to shift our understanding of the problem.
“The Pushouts” filmmakers follow Rios and his team of mentors as they work to build an innovative learning environment for young people fighting to succeed despite overwhelming systemic barriers.
“It's not just about these kids redeeming themselves. It's also about us redeeming ourselves - turning around the system that has really set up a lot of these young people to fail,” says Rios.
FRONTLINE first met Rios while filming the 1994 classic film, “School Colors” - when he was a struggling student at Berkeley High School. Despite Rios himself being “pushed out” of school, over the past 25 years he’s become a best-selling author and expert on the school-to-prison pipeline.
Now, “The Pushouts” explores how his journey is helping the next generation negotiate a system that seems designed to push them out. Starts 12/20/2019 on PBS.
Directed, Produced and Written by Katie Galloway
Produced and Co-directed by Dawn Valadez
Produced and Co-written by Daniella Brower
Edited by Tracy Quezada and Stephanie Mechura
Executive Produced and Senior Produced by Sharon Tiller
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[@iboogie7878]

Thank you to Victor and those who helped him along his way. I'm looking forward to this.

[@fabioschneider5970]

I was teaching inner-city Tucson, AZ
The majority of my HS students were never out of their neighborhood at age 14 , let that sink in...
How do I know: When we went for a sports event to a border town our road trip felt like their first vacation ever ! ! !

[@saul-gt7zj]

Victor, you are amazing, we need more leaders like you.

[@HarryFromTheNorthSide]

Such a heartbreaking upbringing,im glad youre doing better now brother❤

[@upaiaq]

Victoria at 5:51 is spot on with the expectations of some "outsiders"some of those outsiders are teachers and other decision makers.

[@seanwebb605]

If you had three felonies for stealing cars then that was not your specialty.

[@birdmusic1206]

Perseverance man, never give up!

[@Maddie9185]

The sad reality is that he thought that was his specialty.

[@Scorch1028]

Yeah, that's true, but maybe he's stolen a lot more cars than he's actually been caught stealing. In baseball, the players with the most homeruns tend to have the lowest batting averages.

[@seanwebb605]

@@Scorch1028 A low batting average does indicate that you have hit many home runs.

[@tomdonahue4224]

Thanks for the good laugh!

[@tomdonahue4224]

Dads...Dads...Dads...Dads. Be a good father to your children, especially boys, who just need to learn that discipline and self-respect. It isn't poverty, people have been poor forever, it isn't systemic racism, take the father out of the family in ANY culture and see what you get. A strong family, is the first line in stopping children on the path to prison.

[@MarleenGuerryDean]

Truly inspiring!

[@HarryFromTheNorthSide]

Good people doing good things❤❤

[@elwerouno1]

Victor Rios#1👍👏👏👏👏🤘🏆

[@PJLbck]

Much respect

[@alexstone3822]

The School-to-Prison Pipeline is slavery reborn.

[@disf5178]

I think the slaves would probably disagree.

[@Sir.VicsMasher]

This is how we got the Parkland Florida High School shooter who killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas. Authorities were repeatedly held back because of this [School to Prison Pipeline]

[@kausamsalam8543]

Good point.

[@MiVidaEse]

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jenny-bu4le]

😪