Breaking the Handcuffs on Texas Children By Texas State Rep. Helen Giddings Imagine a child as young as six years old arrested for disrupting class. It seems like an unlikely scenario, but it is happening in Texas classrooms and these are not just for extreme, violent circumstances. Most arrests are for non-violent disorderly conduct offenses. [...]
As TTAPR called it, when schools started adopting a zero tolerarance, hands off policy to handle typical school age behavior the end result would be an unacceptable increase in reliance on police and school resource officers. Nationwide, suspension and expulsion rates are at crisis levels. The most recent data from the National Center on Education [...]
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Parents Fight over best way to handle 4-year-olds-trouble makers in Nursery School By J. DAVID GOODMAN AND ANDY NEWMAN New York Times The school year for Old First Nursery School in Park Slope, Brooklyn, wraps up on Friday. And for some parents, it will not be a moment too soon. At this, one of the [...]
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