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Reducing the role of ticketing in school discipline

Another good bill up today from Sens. Whitmire and Juan Hinojosa, SB 1116, aims to reduce the number of tickets written by police on school campuses for Class C misdemeanors. He cited examples from Houston ISD where 9 and 10 year olds were given tickets, which he thinks isn't a response that kids that age will understand or respond to well. Six-year olds have gotten tickets in Dallas, he said.Deborah Fowler from Texas Appleseed said 420,000 tickets get filed against juveniles every year; 120,000 are traffic tickets and the rest are criminalizing juvenile misbehavior that in decades past would have been handled by schools, parents, etc.. She said there's no evidence that ticketing reduces misbehavior but that it alienates students and leads to worse outcomes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 29, 2011 (boomark / email).