Showing posts with label juveniles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label juveniles. Show all posts
Friday, March 7, 2014

Bending the law to satisfy the need for revenge

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I would hope that we could all agree that the brain of a 13-year-old functions differently than the brain of a 28-year-old. I would hope tha...
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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Two for Texas

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Hey, make no mistake about it, I love living in the Lone Star State. I've lived here all my life and have no intentions of going anyplac...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Shucking the mark of the beast

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How ironic it was that Northside ISD in San Antonio decided to put radio tracking devices on students' ID badges. It's hard to bel...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Group rips school districts' priorities

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Thanks to the economic meltdown, and the refusal of state leaders to do anything, funding for public schools in Texas plunged. The results w...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Cuffing and stuffing a 10-year-old

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A ten-year-old boy was disruptive in class. No news there. But this young man attended elementary school in a suburban Houston school distri...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The half-full (or half-empty) glass

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On Monday the Supreme Court, in Miller v. Alabama  (combined with Jackson v. Hobbs ) put the kibosh on mandatory life in prison without paro...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Juvenile judge critical of public defender

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Well here's a surprise - a judge who doesn't care for the Harris County Public Defender's Office . Could it be that Judge John P...
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Cop shoots unarmed teenager

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No, the 14-year-old shouldn't have been breaking into a temporary building at a local middle school. He certainly shouldn't have bee...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Disposable lives

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So how much stupid shit did you do when you were a teenager? Just think about all the things you did in high school and college. Makes you...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Exporting a bad idea

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Even the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, Wallace Jefferson, thinks issuing Class C citations to students for "disrupting clas...
Monday, July 25, 2011

More than half of Texas students suspended or expelled

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The results of a longitudinal study that followed one million Texas seventh-graders for six years reveals that 60% of those students were s...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Reading, writing and citing

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Add Texas State Senator John Whitmire (D-Houston) to the growing chorus of voices calling for school districts to stop issuing Class C misde...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Back to the schoolhouse

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A few weeks ago I wrote about the Texas Appleseed report on school districts farming out their disciplinary problems to the criminal (in)jus...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

It's time we stop criminalizing school discipline

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Texas Appleseed , a public interest organization whose mission is to promote social and economic justice for Texans, recently released a rep...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Legislature takes critical look at citing students for misbehavior

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While surfing on Google Reader this morning at the municipal courthouse, I came across a post over at Grits for Breakfast  about the goings-...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Farming out discipline

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Recently, in his blog "Simple Justice," New York criminal defense attorney Scott H. Greenfield wrote about zero tolerance and ...