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275000 tickets to TX school kids/year. America is its own worst enemy, esp red-state, bubba, Confederate America.
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/texas_l...icketing-youthSenate approves bill to limit ticketing youth
Measure would decriminalize youth misbehavior
Updated: Thursday, 04 Apr 2013, 9:11 PM CDT
Published : Thursday, 04 Apr 2013, 9:11 PM CDT
- Michael Brick, Associated Press
AUSTIN (AP) — Faced with a do ented pattern of teenagers pushed into the criminal justice system for acting out in class, Texas lawmakers on Thursday advanced a measure to start decriminalizing youthful misbehavior.
The Senate unanimously approved a bill that would limit the practice of issuing tickets for minor classroom offenses. The measure, which still must clear the House, would replace misdemeanor citations with counseling referrals and punishments such as community service performed on the school grounds.
275000 tickets to TX school kids/year. America is its own worst enemy, esp red-state, bubba, Confederate America.
Apparently in MS, LA, GA, the school-to-jail pipeline is roaring along great.
red state, bubba confederate Texas might be starting to shut it down. if it does, you'll have Republicans to thank for it.
So just make sure you assault the guy in class and not after school!
school administrators can always call the police if they're needed.
what we don't need is beat cops writing tickets in schools, then criminalizing non compliance and recurrence.
blacks and browns are probably the main criminalized students, so bubba racist Repug legislators won't pass this.
kids bad behavior is also part of the brunt caused by the loss of traditional moral standards imho. parents should take the responsibility to cultivate their youths into decent persons, but too many parents have shirked their duties.
bill was unanimously approved in the Senate.
TX reps are more "down (in the bubba) market" than TX Senators, is my guess. We'll see.
fck off s, just another revenue raising scheme
Racist repugs are to blame for all the blacks and browns assaulting their teachers during the middle of class. Got it
there's no need to cripple the potential of young people by over-criminalizing what is largely age-appropriate, garden variety contumacy and misbehavior.
(I'd give a club to the teacher, first.)
blaming the prevalence of violence in the classroom on "all the blacks and browns" is an interesting thesis; is it statistically supported, _JaG?
obviously, we need more guns in schools, harsher laws and even more police to protect schoolchildren from well, you know, the wrong sort of children . . . and us from all of them, obviously.
if schools ever cease to function as schools, they will likely remain as the social expedience of segregating unruly teens from the general population in minimum security warehouses, during daytime retail hours.
I'm sure I can find some interesting stats on the racial makeup of the majority of offenders.
Here's a decent white paper on the topic. The caveats are many however, with data acquisition and reporting issues as major players. Shocking revelation to me was that special education students are very over represented in school ticketing.
FWIW
http://cbsdallas.files.wordpress.com...ooklet_web.pdf
See pg. 23 for breakdowns of offense types.
The School-to-Prison Pipeline
In Meridian, Miss., police routinely arrest and transport youths to a juvenile detention center for minor classroom misbehaviors. In Jefferson Parish, La., according to a U.S. Department of Justice complaint, school officials have given armed police “unfettered authority to stop, frisk, detain, question, search and arrest schoolchildren on and off school grounds.” In Birmingham, Ala., police officers are permanently stationed in nearly every high school.
In fact, hundreds of school districts across the country employ discipline policies that push students out of the classroom and into the criminal justice system at alarming rates—a phenomenon known as the school-to-prison pipeline.
http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/nu...hool-to-prison
The Worst “School-to-Prison” Pipeline: Was it in Mississippi?
What do these school kids have in common? The teenage girl with a bladder disorder who left class without permission, ignoring a teacher and racing for a bathroom rather than wet herself; the boy who was rude to a school administrator; another who was y. They are children of color who, as a result of breaking minor school rules, were allegedly arrested and thrown into a juvenile detention facility in Meridian, Mississippi. It appears to be the most blatant case in a nationwide phenomenon that the U.S. Department of Justice, in a 37-page lawsuit, calls a “school-to-prison pipeline.”
Following an eight-month investigation and a two-month warning period, the Justice Department in October filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Meridian, Lauderdale County, the Mississippi Department of Youth Services (DYS) and local Youth Court judges Frank Coleman and Veldore Young for violating the Fourth, Fifth and 14th Amendment rights of Meridian public school children.
For six years or so, at least 77 children, some as young as 10 – all of them “children of color,” says Jody Owens, with the Southern Poverty Law Center–were routinely arrested at Meridian schools allegedly on the say-so of teachers or administrators, handcuffed and taken to jail where they were held for days on end without benefit of a hearing, a lawyer, or understanding their Miranda rights. Their parents or guardians weren’t notified of the arrests until the children were in lockdown in a facility the SPLC says was a hole of abuse and neglect.
http://nation.time.com/2012/12/11/th...n-mississippi/
and it's the still rampantly racist Confederate Bible-thumping "Christian" already-ridiculously-gerrymanded states, including TX, that are agitating for SCOTUS to kill the Voting Rights Act, saying "things have changed"
Last edited by boutons_deux; 04-08-2013 at 05:04 PM.
My step-daughter being one of them.
My son being another.
I guess technically she is a brownie (at least a half-brownie) so I guess that means that half of the reason she bent that teacher's finger back in 8th grade was because red state bubba representatives (but seemingly not senators) were willing her hand to do so.
Absolutely. The Red State Jedi Mind Trick ™ is exclusive to Representatives. Senators are allowed the full use of the dark side.
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