school-to-prison pipeline starts (or is best avoided) in the classroom. When combined with zero-tolerance policies, a teacher’s decision to refer students for punishment can mean they are pushed out of the classroom and much more likely to be introduced into the criminal justice system.3 One of the things I would love to see is the creation of alternative school options. I’d love to have this happen at Epiphany Fellowship. I’d love our church to be a place where trained, paid professionals educate kids who