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<blockquote data-quote="TheOnlyMe" data-source="post: 261303" data-attributes="member: 4515"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: Purple">Sorry it is so late but it is in email format</span></span></span>: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="color: Purple"> Feel free to add your own tid bit to the bottom!!!</span></span> Don't forget the Governor and the Lt Governor and your local House and Senate Representatives, I found out 10 is the magic number on call ins or emails so least make it a thousand!!! post on every group your are on and send out to your family business owners, anybody taxpayer can send Grandma's we have until TUESDAY MORNING-- APRIL 7th!!!!</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.texaszerotolerance.com/Legislative/Action.html" target="_blank">http://www.texaszerotolerance.com/Legislative/Action.html</a> if you don't know your representatives or for the Governor and the Lt. Governor.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="mailto:Diane.Patrick@house.state.tx.us">Diane.Patrick@house.state.tx.us</a>, <a href="mailto:Dora.Olivo@house.state.tx.us">Dora.Olivo@house.state.tx.us</a>, <a href="mailto:Scott.Hochberg@house.state.tx.us">Scott.Hochberg@house.state.tx.us</a>, <a href="mailto:Harold.Dutton@house.state.tx.us">Harold.Dutton@house.state.tx.us</a>, <a href="mailto:Dan.Branch@house.state.tx.us">Dan.Branch@house.state.tx.us</a>, <a href="mailto:Rob.Eissler@house.state.tx.us">Rob.Eissler@house.state.tx.us</a>, <a href="mailto:tztinfo@yahoo.com">tztinfo@yahoo.com</a></p><p>Support for parents - Reply to Topic</p><p></p><p>Subject: Texas House Committee on Public Education Heard House Bills 171 & 172 Texas Zero Tolerance</p><p></p><p>Body of emails:</p><p><span style="color: #000063"><strong><em>The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice - Benjamin Franklin </em></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #000063"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000063"><strong><em>When our children in Texas public schools can be accused, found guilty, ticketed, often times arrested and removed from school before parents are notified, then there is something intrinsically wrong with a system that claims to work in partnership with parents for the education and well being of our children.</em></strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000051"><strong><em>In the name of zero tolerance, Texas Public Schools are treating innocent children like criminal</em></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #000051"></span></p><p><span style="color: #00004f">by Eddie Evans, Co-Director - Texas Zero Tolerance</span></p><p><span style="color: #00004f"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">What does Texas and Afghanistan have in common? Both have systems in place that believe that punishing the innocent for the crimes of the guilty is not only permissible but is to be embraced so a message can be sent that any mistake whether intentional or not will be punished as harshly as possible. In Afghanistan this system is implemented by the Taliban. In Texas this system is administered by our public schools. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Since 1995 when Texas legislators declared zero tolerance on Texas public school campuses for drugs & weapons thousands of Texas schoolchildren each year have found themselves suspended and/or expelled through the guidance of chapter 37 of the Texas Education Code. Most of these students are sent to alternative education centers known as Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs (DAEPs) or Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Programs (JJAEPs). The latest figures from 2006 show that 140,000 students in Texas were suspended or expelled for that school year. Education advocates estimate that 10% of these students were completely innocent of their purported offense. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative research and educational think tank institute reported that there was no probable cause for charges to be filed in approximately 1/3 of all the cases where children are arrested under Texass current zero tolerance system.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Zero tolerance, as enforced in the majority of Texas public schools today, is a policy that punishes the innocent for the crimes of the guilty. It treats children as adult offenders without the presumption of innocence, disrupts the lives and educations of good students nearly as often as it does those of troubled students, and treats all covered offenses and all students equally, regardless of age, intent, past behavior, or magnitude of the offense. Think Salem witch trials but without the trial.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Zero tolerance policies for students adopt a theory of mandatory punishment that has been rejected by the adult criminal justice system because it is too harsh! Rather than having a variety of sanctions available for a range of school-based offenses, state law and school district policies apply the same expulsion rules to a six-year-old as to a 17-year-old; to the first time offender as to the chronic troublemaker; to the child with a gun as to the child with a Swiss Army knife. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Adults - especially those who teach children - are expected to have the skills and knowledge to teach behavior in age-appropriate ways. Unfortunately, zero tolerance as practiced in Texas today is not rooted in theories of child or adolescent development. It teaches children nothing about fairness & has created countless injustices across Texas since the policy was implemented in 1995. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">When children in Texas public schools can be accused, found guilty, ticketed, often times arrested, and removed from school before parents are even notified of a problem, there is something intrinsically wrong with a system that claims to work in partnership with parents for the education and well being of their children.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">On the face of it zero tolerance sounds like a simple solution to a complex problem. Most parents would agree that school is no place for drugs or weapons. However, when innocent children wind up in the juvenile justice system and/or severely punished for honest or minor childish mistakes the system is broken. Texass current system falls into the severely broken category. Most parents dont think zero tolerance will ever affect their childs life.</span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'">The school is to prepare our children for adult life, and as adults; we have a justice systems which gives us rights as American Citizens, which are children are not receiving with this legislation. Yet our children who are minors as well as American's and are still under the authority of their parents; are not being taught their civil rights by this No Tolerance Law. </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'">Their are better ways to determine progressive discipline with in a school system, than to use a the juvenile justice system and the school police department. This is not the appropriate way to teach our children to have a voice, choice and know how to advocate for themselves but it also violates our civil rights as their parents. </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'">I think the resolution is more specialized training for the staff of the schools from the administrators to the janitors, to build leaders in our children not criminals. The Pendulum has swung to far to the left in the last 15 years with this law, to this point, discipline is to change a behavior not to break the spirit of the child.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: Blue"><em><strong>So I am requesting your support on all the bills associated with the House Bills HB 171. HB 172 as well as the following HB 224, HB 2475I </strong></em>HB 3038<span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'">.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 15px">Sincerely Your Constituent,</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheOnlyMe, post: 261303, member: 4515"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple]Sorry it is so late but it is in email format[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]: [FONT=Comic Sans MS][COLOR=Purple] Feel free to add your own tid bit to the bottom!!![/COLOR][/FONT] Don't forget the Governor and the Lt Governor and your local House and Senate Representatives, I found out 10 is the magic number on call ins or emails so least make it a thousand!!! post on every group your are on and send out to your family business owners, anybody taxpayer can send Grandma's we have until TUESDAY MORNING-- APRIL 7th!!!! [URL]http://www.texaszerotolerance.com/Legislative/Action.html[/URL] if you don't know your representatives or for the Governor and the Lt. Governor. [EMAIL]Diane.Patrick@house.state.tx.us[/EMAIL], [EMAIL]Dora.Olivo@house.state.tx.us[/EMAIL], [EMAIL]Scott.Hochberg@house.state.tx.us[/EMAIL], [EMAIL]Harold.Dutton@house.state.tx.us[/EMAIL], [EMAIL]Dan.Branch@house.state.tx.us[/EMAIL], [EMAIL]Rob.Eissler@house.state.tx.us[/EMAIL], [EMAIL]tztinfo@yahoo.com[/EMAIL] Support for parents - Reply to Topic Subject: Texas House Committee on Public Education Heard House Bills 171 & 172 Texas Zero Tolerance Body of emails: [COLOR=#000063][B][I]The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice - Benjamin Franklin [/I][/B] [B][I]When our children in Texas public schools can be accused, found guilty, ticketed, often times arrested and removed from school before parents are notified, then there is something intrinsically wrong with a system that claims to work in partnership with parents for the education and well being of our children.[/I][/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000051][B][I]In the name of zero tolerance, Texas Public Schools are treating innocent children like criminal[/I][/B] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#00004f]by Eddie Evans, Co-Director - Texas Zero Tolerance [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]What does Texas and Afghanistan have in common? Both have systems in place that believe that punishing the innocent for the crimes of the guilty is not only permissible but is to be embraced so a message can be sent that any mistake whether intentional or not will be punished as harshly as possible. In Afghanistan this system is implemented by the Taliban. In Texas this system is administered by our public schools. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Since 1995 when Texas legislators declared zero tolerance on Texas public school campuses for drugs & weapons thousands of Texas schoolchildren each year have found themselves suspended and/or expelled through the guidance of chapter 37 of the Texas Education Code. Most of these students are sent to alternative education centers known as Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs (DAEPs) or Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Programs (JJAEPs). The latest figures from 2006 show that 140,000 students in Texas were suspended or expelled for that school year. Education advocates estimate that 10% of these students were completely innocent of their purported offense. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative research and educational think tank institute reported that there was no probable cause for charges to be filed in approximately 1/3 of all the cases where children are arrested under Texass current zero tolerance system.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Zero tolerance, as enforced in the majority of Texas public schools today, is a policy that punishes the innocent for the crimes of the guilty. It treats children as adult offenders without the presumption of innocence, disrupts the lives and educations of good students nearly as often as it does those of troubled students, and treats all covered offenses and all students equally, regardless of age, intent, past behavior, or magnitude of the offense. Think Salem witch trials but without the trial. Zero tolerance policies for students adopt a theory of mandatory punishment that has been rejected by the adult criminal justice system because it is too harsh! Rather than having a variety of sanctions available for a range of school-based offenses, state law and school district policies apply the same expulsion rules to a six-year-old as to a 17-year-old; to the first time offender as to the chronic troublemaker; to the child with a gun as to the child with a Swiss Army knife. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Adults - especially those who teach children - are expected to have the skills and knowledge to teach behavior in age-appropriate ways. Unfortunately, zero tolerance as practiced in Texas today is not rooted in theories of child or adolescent development. It teaches children nothing about fairness & has created countless injustices across Texas since the policy was implemented in 1995. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]When children in Texas public schools can be accused, found guilty, ticketed, often times arrested, and removed from school before parents are even notified of a problem, there is something intrinsically wrong with a system that claims to work in partnership with parents for the education and well being of their children.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]On the face of it zero tolerance sounds like a simple solution to a complex problem. Most parents would agree that school is no place for drugs or weapons. However, when innocent children wind up in the juvenile justice system and/or severely punished for honest or minor childish mistakes the system is broken. Texass current system falls into the severely broken category. Most parents dont think zero tolerance will ever affect their childs life.[/COLOR] [LEFT][SIZE=4][COLOR=Blue][FONT=comic sans ms]The school is to prepare our children for adult life, and as adults; we have a justice systems which gives us rights as American Citizens, which are children are not receiving with this legislation. Yet our children who are minors as well as American's and are still under the authority of their parents; are not being taught their civil rights by this No Tolerance Law. Their are better ways to determine progressive discipline with in a school system, than to use a the juvenile justice system and the school police department. This is not the appropriate way to teach our children to have a voice, choice and know how to advocate for themselves but it also violates our civil rights as their parents. I think the resolution is more specialized training for the staff of the schools from the administrators to the janitors, to build leaders in our children not criminals. The Pendulum has swung to far to the left in the last 15 years with this law, to this point, discipline is to change a behavior not to break the spirit of the child.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [/LEFT] [SIZE=4][COLOR=Blue][I][B]So I am requesting your support on all the bills associated with the House Bills HB 171. HB 172 as well as the following HB 224, HB 2475I [/B][/I]HB 3038[FONT=comic sans ms].[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][COLOR=Blue][SIZE=4]Sincerely Your Constituent,[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=Red] [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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