Texas school police ticketing students as young as 6

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School police officers in Texas are doling out more tickets to children as young as 6, who under past disciplinary practices would have been sent to the principal’s office instead, according to a report by a Texas nonprofit.

“Disrupting class, using profanity, misbehaving on a school bus, student fights, and truancy once meant a trip to the principal’s office. Today, such misbehavior results in a Class C misdemeanor ticket and a trip to court for thousands of Texas students and their families each year,” says the Appleseed Texas report (PDF). It examined data from 22 of the state’s largest school districts and eight municipal courts.

Over six years, school police issued 1,000 tickets to elementary school children in 10 school districts.

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