Posted on 01/10/2011 10:23:31 PM PST by MamaDearest
Excerpt only website snip: "Disrupting class, using profanity, misbehaving on a school bus, student fights, and truancy once meant a trip to the principal's office. Today, such misbehavior results in a Class C misdemeanor ticket and a trip to court for thousands of Texas students and their families each year," says the Appleseed Texas report (PDF). It examined data from 22 of the state's largest school districts and eight municipal courts.
Over six years, school police issued 1,000 tickets to elementary school children in 10 school districts.
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Is this story accurate? No person can commit a violation of law in Texas under 10.
This is ridiculous.
Good Lord, what have we become?
Got out of line, I got my butt beat by the teacher, she called my parents and got it again when I got home. The system worked.
And after reading the story, it is very inaccurate. The child has to be 10 to get a ticket (this is state law), so we’re talking about fourth and fifth graders here, not 6 year olds.
Send your children to private schools in another country or just move.America is on the downfall.
Move to where? Most english-speaking countries are worse so far.
The voters in the districts have the final say. It's obviously what they want or they would voted out the school board and demand the superintendants and principals be fired. It's high time parents quit blindly being led around by the school board and take back responsibility for their childrens' education.
Do a web seach for it, if you don't believe.
More kids go to court for classroom misbehavior
Snip: Misbehave in a Texas classroom and, chances are, you won’t find yourself scrawling rote across a blackboard after eighth period. Instead, the criminal justice system is increasingly the destination for mischief-makers — some as young as 6 — in the state’s public schools, according to a new study from Texas Appleseed that analyzes data collected over a five-year period between 2001 and 2007. As school districts face deep funding cuts during the 2011 legislative session, the report sheds light on what is a rapidly growing part of public school budgets: campus security.
ping for later
Ditto that here. I remember standing in front of the blackboard with my face toward the blackboard for not paying attention to the teacher. Here's another snip from the article I posted a minutes or two ago:
More kids go to court for classroom misbehavior
Among the report’s legislative policy recommendations is that the state require special training for police officers who work with students. Currently, there are no limitations on the use of force like physical restraints and pepper spray, which Fowler says are “widely used” against students. The report also suggests changes to the state education code to prevent schools from receiving revenue from misdemeanor ticketing, the decriminalization of low-level offenses like disrupting class, and to prohibit the ticketing of students under age 14.
One problem is that if 2 kids get into some minor altercation, they will write both of them a ticket, usually without even trying to determine who started it or who was out of line. Some punk at my kid’s school attacked him from behind, my kid pushed him off defensively before the fight was broken up, but he got a ticket as well as the punk, and we had to spend an afternoon at the JP court over the whole thing.
That's what I was wondering....it's a REVENUE source, too! So there is an INCENTIVE....
“we had to spend an afternoon at the JP court over the whole thing”
Orwellian.
On the other hand, what are the teachers and principals supposed to do if they can’t hit the students?
Get rid of this ticket crap; bring back the paddle.
We have kids that have been removed from their homes, and put into group homes. They're traumatized from the way they were treated at home and from being placed in a home. Some of them easily become violent. For some kids, Dad is already socializing them into the gang life. If I didn't have to go to work, I'd say more. The solution is not simple.
All that has to happen is people need to call thier representatives.
When WE-THE-PEOPLE speak that will end it!
there is a web site called
“USA.GOV” ; use it to “call” your rep.
Phone calls mean more than e-mails, and most people have unlimited telephone service.
You have only two Senators and one CONgress person to call, then ask the other cyber-neighbors to call, a few hundred will call, and we have THOUSANDS! Call your “representatives”, that is called getting pro-active.
I’ll call my reps, you call yours, and ask your “cyber-neighbors to help.
You really don’t need a lot of people, only a small percentage are smart enough to vote or call.
If you have never been to a school board meeting, now is your chance, almost no people show because “THEY DON’T MAKE THE TIME TO GO”
A half dozen , or maybe a few more can change a school bistrict.
Preachin’ to the choir.
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