- P40 -

Transformative Therapeutic Recreational Empowerment Programs Too many students miss out on the myriad cognitive and social benefits of extracurricular programs in music art and creative writing i. e. increased academic achievement civic engagement college attendance and professional careers due to disparate funding for public education. Additionally many underresourced schools rely on zerotolerance policies and corporal punishment that too often funnel students to the juvenile and criminal justice systems aka the schooltoprison pipeline.