Legal to Send Students to Court Instead of Detention?
It used to be detention and a trip to the principal's office. Maybe suspension. But these days, school ticketing seems to have taken over traditional disciplinary measures in many of the nation's educational institutions, throwing children as young as 5 in front of a judge.
Citations, which can lead to hundreds of dollars in fines and community service, are given for running in the hallway, classroom disruption, and bringing soda to school.
How is this even legal?
And is it even right?
One of the larger proponents of school ticketing is Texas, where the state legislature granted school officers the power to hand out Class C Misdemeanor citations for even the smallest of disciplinary infractions.
Ticketed students must make mandatory appearances in front of a judge, reports theWashington Post, where they are given the option of paying a fine or paying for more