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https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas- politics/texas-safe-schools-act-calls-for-amendment/287-7999a60b-17ea- 474f-9d68-6cbb0b81e901

TEXAS, USA — Many Texas school district superintendents say a law meant to
keep schools safe is now having the opposite effect.

Wylie ISD Superintendent Dr. David Vinson told WFAA some classrooms have
become downright dangerous.

As an example, Dr. Vinson pointed to one of his assistant principals who
came into the office with two black eyes after an elementary school
student headbutted her. And Vinson said they have no recourse in such situations.

“You have certain things that you can do if you’re in law enforcement. If
they were in a hospital, you could restrain them to a bed in that
situation. In public education, you’re just basically waiting to get them
tired out because you have no ability,” Dr. Vinson told WFAA on Inside
Texas Politics.

Dr. Vinson said Wylie ISD, a district with nearly 20,000 students, spent
$1.5 million last year on only 12 problem students, something the
district’s budget cannot sustain.

Lawmakers passed the Safe Schools Act in 1995 to help teachers address
problem students.

But in the years since, lawmakers kept adding to the law, and Dr. Vinson
said it’s now 140 pages long. And while the additions may have been well- intentioned, the superintendent said the law now severely limits how
educators can discipline students.

Dr. Vinson now wants more leeway when it comes to discipline.

“We spent last legislative session making schools safe on the outside. And
what we’re gonna try to do is provide some commonsense legislation to make
a school safer on the inside,” the superintendent relayed.

The specific section of the law they want to change is known as Chapter
37, which addresses behavior management and student discipline.

For instance, Dr. Vinson said nowadays, if a student is disrupting a
classroom, every other student in that class has to leave the room, while
the student causing the problems stays in class all alone as teachers try
to manage the situation.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, superintendents are asking lawmakers
to allow them to provide online learning for suspended students who are at home, something they can’t do right now.

“We’re so good at pulling weeds and talking about everything that’s wrong
with education. Let’s start planting some flowers about how they can
change,” Dr. Vinson said. “We have a coalition from Slidell to Cy Fair.
You know, from 150 kids to 105,000 kids that have joined our coalition. We
had four more school districts join it last week.”


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