Over the last 9 years in writing about the purposeful failure to educate predominantly Latino and African American children in our yet segregated public school districts like the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), one of the greatest casualties I have documented that often goes unappreciated, when these predominantly minority children are turned loose on society without even rudimentary educational formation, is the clearly resulting reality that "every year across the country, an estimated 200,000 youth are tried, sentenced or incarcerated as adults," which more often then not leads to a life buried in the criminal justice system.
