On November 9th, Gwinnett SToPP will be presenting our fourth installment to the Education System In Crisis series titled, “Native American Boarding Schools and the COVID Response.” We have been discussing racism in education including: the foundation of the education system, disparities in discipline and opportunities, and Police Free Schools! We educate the public on […]
WoA Kick Cops Out of Schools Virtual Event
Gwinnett SToPP went virtual for our 2020 Dignity In Schools Week of Action! Our ED, Marlyn Tillman joined three of our advocates (Amina, Rama, and Melody) to discuss Police Free Schools in Gwinnett County. We were also joined by civil rights attorney Adam Fernandez, Vice President of Policy and Strategic Engagement at Lawyers for Good […]
Queer Identities in the Classroom
TW: Suicide When we talk about policing in schools, the conversation is usually centered around race, which is an extremely important point to touch on; however, it is important to be intersectional in our approach, as stated before. Living in a heteronormative society, LGBTQ+ kids usually have such a difficult time navigating their identity and […]
Reimagining Safety in a Surveilled Community
A question I continuously revisit is if increased surveillance truly makes a population feel safe. Does the camera on every corner, police car in every lot, and metal detectors in schools actually make community members and students feel safer? I remember being in the 5th grade, and constantly worried about getting caught doing something wrong, […]
What Do You Want For Your Kids? Sign the Petition!
We aren’t asking to hobble administrators and leave teachers unable to manage their classrooms. We aren’t looking for anarchy. We are asking administrators and parents to remember that students are children. We are asking for a sensible vision that teaches children how to relate to each other with empathy. Data suggests and we know in our […]
First Name, Last Name
I am sick and tired. Actually, I have reached a point where I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. Over the 4th of July weekend, there was an attempted lynching. If you did not know, the last “recorded” lynching, emphasis on recorded, occurred in Mobile, Alabama; Michael Donald, 19 years old, […]
Intersectionality, Intensification, and Introspection
Since the rise of COVID-19, we have seen a national push for responses in areas in which neglect has occurred nationally. COVID-19 in the United States has led to deaths, intensification of trauma, and the widespread recognition of the racial disparities within the United States. Although these disparities are nothing new, it has garnered a […]
Students Are The Future. The Future Is Students
The pandemic of racism has plagued African Americans for over four hundred years, increasing in intensity and mutating into different forms throughout this time; therefore, racism did not magically invent itself when an African American father was killed, so it appalls me when Americans say that now, today, made them aware of African American’s plight […]
Gwinnett SToPP Mobilizes to Remove SROs from Gwinnett County Public Schools
Partners, stakeholders and friends, it is time to pay attention and get involved. The change we have been working for is here and we have work to do to make sure we capture it. This evening Marlyn Tillman will speak before the Gwinnett County School Board to demand an end to school resource officers in […]
The Gwinnett Parent Coalition to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline Calls for the Removal of School Resource Officers from Gwinnett County Public Schools
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2020, Lawrenceville, Ga. – During this time in our nation’s history, the public has re-examined the role of police in our communities. We at Gwinnett SToPP have been calling for an end to overly harsh and ineffective discipline at Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) since our founding in 2008. It […]