The Promise Program was enacted to ensure minorities wouldn't have a criminal record while in school.
This was done to stop the mythical 'school to prison pipeline'.
Apparently if schools didn't damage a child for life with a criminal school record minority students wouldn't be 'forced' to become criminals later in life.
You can imagine that for some "kids" that list was a license to kill.
They wouldn't see it as "Look how people are helping to keep me out of trouble"
It would be more like "So...they won't put something in my record if I trash something and the Vandalism/Damage to Property is less than $1,000, or if I steal something, if it is less than $300 I might have to listen to a lecture, but that's about it"