Texas school districts continue to rely on law enforcement and the courts to handle student discipline that used to be handled by teachers and administrators, according to a comprehensive report from Texas Appleseed and Texans Care for Children.
“These policies, practices and consequences are part of the ‘school-to-prison pipeline,’” the advocacy groups say in the executive summary of “Dangerous Discipline.” The findings mirror those in Texas Appleseed’s 2010 and 2013 reports.
“Texas school districts continue to rely on police officers, juvenile probation, and courts to address low-level, school-based behaviors, despite an ever-growing body of research showing the many ways these methods harm you,” the latest report says.
Citing examples such as Irving’s handling of the “clock boy” incident as an “alarming student-police interactions”, local school districts were not left out of the scathing report.
However, Dallas ISD was spotlighted for a pilot program using restorative discipline that led to a 70 percent reduction in in-school suspensions, a 77 percent drop in out-of-school suspensions, and a 50 percent drop in alternative school placements in one year.Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article121125663.html#storylink=cpy
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