Alright, so I am not an education minor nor someone who wants to teach in the near future, yet I am taking EDUC 377: Education Policy and Politics. I also took an Urban Education class as well as Teaching Students with Diverse Needs. I designed my own major, so I had to choose relevant classes . . . education classes were initially not my first choice. However, after taking Urban Education, I learned that there was so much to juvenile law that intertwined with a variety of other disciplines (that's the beauty of being an IDS major!). Even as an intern at my district's juvenile court for three years, I saw a lot (or lack thereof) of communication between the schools and the legal system. I think it is intriguing that the majority of the adolescents who are in the legal system have so much difficulty in school and nothing seems to improve for them. Why? Why is there so much truancy, disrespect, and substance abuse in school? Why do straight A students end up getting in trouble with the law and let their grades plummet? You can't have senioritis for all four years of high school (just don't ask me when I started getting it). With that being said, I think my pursuit of having an education background is driven by academic interests, especially considering the focus of my thesis -- which investigates how the family/home environment, the school, and the legal system are all theoretically a support system for each child. If each child has these support systems, then why is there such a high recidivism rate in the court system? How are the people who should be accessible to these children supporting or failing them and to what extent is the education system involved?
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