The school-to-prison pipeline refers to school discipline practices, such as suspensions and referrals to law enforcement, that funnel youth out of public education and into the juvenile and criminal legal systems. This trend reflects our country’s prioritization of incarceration over education, and it’s made worse as resources for public schools are decreased. From inadequate resources for counseling to an overreliance on school-based police officers to enforce harsh zero-tolerance policies, many students — overwhelmingly students of color and students with disabilities — are isolated, punished, and pushed out of our education system for adolescent mistakes.