In the state of Mississippi, kids under the age of six have been led out of classrooms in handcuffs. Which item caused a kid to be removed in cuffs?

In 2012, the U.S. Justice Department sued school officials in Mississippi for systematically incarcerating children for days at a time. Kids as young as five years old were being led out of classrooms in handcuffs for flatulence in class, throwing temper tantrums, or swearing at others. They were even arrested for throwing an eraser at a teacher, breaking a pencil, and having rap lyrics (music) in a locker.

But what is startling about this type of program, dubbed the "school-to-prison pipeline," is that it is not just confined to the state of Mississippi. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has long been fighting what it calls the "national trend in America of criminalizing, rather than educating, the nation’s children."

Now in some other states such as Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Wisconsin, New York, etc., the Zero-Tolerance Student Policy Programs still impose severe discipline on kids without regard to individual circumstances. Under the policies, children have been expelled and sent involuntarily to disciplinary alternative schools. The students most affected by these programs are often the ones that needed the most help from the schools.