Thomas D. Allison

School-to-Profession Pipeline

Teamwork does not make the dream work, teamwork is the dream.  The village raises the child so that the child can eventually raise the village.  Prison investors have figured out a scheme to fill their beds and cells.  I am fighting to fill the courtrooms, boardrooms, and classrooms, with intelligent, excellent minority professionals.  Instead of the school-to-prison pipeline, this is the school-to-profession pipeline.

Junior High School

Objectives:
  • Establish comfort with the basics: reading, writing, critical thinking, and storytelling
  • Introduction to intellectualism
Lessons:
  • The power of reading, writing, and telling stories
  • Introduction to fallacies
  • Social contract

High School

​Objectives:
  • Branding - website, social media, and business cards
  • Networking and relationship building
  • Identity construction
  • Expand intellectualism
Lessons:
  • The importance of presentation
  • The nature of relationship building
  • Critical Race Theory, Feminist Race Theory, Critical White Studies, etc.
  • Ethics - deontology, virtue, consequentialism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism

College

Objectives:
  • Professional development - Build professional portfolio
  • Social engagement and awareness
Lessons:
  • Career development
  • Various readings

Law School

Objectives:
  • ​Skills development - legal research, legal writing, and memorization
  • Bar exam practice - MBEs, essays, and PTs
  • Networking and clerking
Lessons:
  • ​Various legal books
  • Bar prep materials