[basil]

I live in an Austin suburb—if any of this is true, I certainly haven’t heard of it.

[MileHi]

Well it is happening, especially since Columbine. Now every school has a “resource officer” who has nothing else to do all day. What used to be normal school (mis)behavior is now “assault” or “criminal mischief” with a court summons. After that it becomes real easy to “re-offend”. Especially if your kid offends or has a conflict of any sort with a “minority” or a “GLBT” student.

[deport]

Check the Texas Education Code.....

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/ED/htm/ED.37.htm

For what it’s worth and I don’t know how accurate the ticket assertion is.

Excerpt from a Texas Committee hearing this past March.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:8ZO-A6If23cJ:www.aclutx.org/download/42/+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgfC_-eARbcWZEldy2HxZ0vP5Z16Dm56FmmFnoMl43Mqrio2itcpk2M8vUsnQtAvCyGame9_FWy5qAUToBVOj9a4r2ZZhWrVTROkRwVeqCtuh6lchgN-TpE0iRB-iMyPlqM_aQU&sig=AHIEtbRRI-JgQcYO3GGQtjqF1xg9YZod3w&pli=1

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Although we know that school ticketing is a major contributor to the high number of
youths involved in the juvenile justice system, we need better data to understand and
combat the problem. More than 275,000 non-traffic tickets are issued to juveniles in
Texas each year.1 These Class C misdemeanor tickets require court appearances for
students and are often a youth’s first interaction with the juvenile justice system. As
detailed in a 2011 report by Texas Appleseed, the vast majority of tickets issued each
year are for infractions that are school-related, such as disruption of class. However,
school-based police units are not required to report data on incidents of student
ticketing, arrests, or use of restraints. We cannot, therefore, know precisely how wide
spread the school-to-prison pipeline is, which schools are over-relying on ticketing to
address misbehavior, or whether police are acting responsibly when dealing with
children.2 The lack of data is a serious obstacle for youth advocates seeking ways to
reduce referrals to the criminal justice system.
end snip