If you give prisoners in the U.S. an option to get classes in order to become teachers for impoverished areas and in return for a reduced sentence for only criminals for petty crimes. Would this be a good idea?
The criminals would be monitored carefully.
Please let me know if the following references/sites are helpful to you:
1. Prisoners Teaching ESL: A Learning Community among ...
www.ncte.org/.../Journals/TETYC/0401-sep2012/TETYC0401Prisoners.pdf
A program in which prisoners teach ESL classes, ... A Learning Community among “Language Partners ... making it difficult for these men to enter ABE and
www.educationjustice.net/.../uploads/2011/11/TETYC0401Prisoners.pdf
Prisoners Teaching ESL: A Learning Community among “Language Partners” 69 instruction began in January 2011 to a group of men who had tested at low and
2. Learning behind bars: Education in prisons - ScienceDirect
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X09001516
Learning behind bars: Education in prisons ... unexpected challenges and the responsibility for making their own ... all the teachers of prisoners in one service get ...
Dennis
Dennis Mazur
Thank you Dennis, these sources were quite interesting. It gives a good background on teaching and education in prisons.
HI, Timon,
The social and political obstacles to what you propose are substantial. As a matter of course, ex-offenders are barred in the US from working with children. As you might easily imagine, parents are quite likely to object to this arrangement regardless of the degree of oversight provided.
Another major obstacle is that petty crimes do not receive sentences of sufficient length to permit adequate provision of educational programs to prepare ex-offenders for teaching duties. Petty crimes tend to be dealt with by local or county jail sentences of less than a year's duration. Obviously, there is little that an educational program might provide with a population that churns up to 6 or 8 times a year.
And there is always the problem of funding for the educational programming provided. Prisoners are no longer eligible for Pell grants or other federal funding, and it is a rarity for states to see the wisdom in targeting scarce tax revenues to educate this population, regardless of the high return on the investment in lower recidivism or future criminal activity.
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