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We're getting awfully close to an upper class imposing lifelong penalties on lower class members for stepping out of line. A felony is a lifelong handicap to the working class.

How much longer until we're (figuratively) cutting off the hands of orphans for stealing loaves of bread?

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Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline

Which teachers and administrators at the school do you feel are a part of this "upper class?" There are certainly no millionaires handing down decrees at the schools near me.

That is because they are the upper classes in terms of power, not money (there is some overlap, but not as much as there have been, historically.

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