Texas Zero Tolerance

Texas Zero Tolerance

Advantage Academy (Waxahachie Charter School)

• Autistic child accused of terroristic threat
  

X - Aledo ISD

• The one-finger salute equals 3 day suspension, citation for disorderly conduct
  

Alvin ISD

• Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
  

• Foul Language
  

Aransas County ISD

• Food Fight equals ticket, DAEP
  

• Curse word equals citation, court date
  

Azel ISD

• Terroristic Threat
  

Belton ISD

• Misled Student Receives 80-day DAEP as Dad is Stationed to Iraq
  

X - Birdville ISD

• Attempt to keep bully from destroying school papers earns in-school-suspension
  

• Self-defense leads to suspension
  

Borger ISD

• Student sent to Saturday detention because he had to use the restroom; parent threatened and physically pushed
  

• Child questions teacher, receives disorderly conduct ticket
  

Brazosport ISD

• Self-defense receives expulsion, ticket, DAEP
  

Canton ISD

• Found Bullet
  

Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD

• Alleged fight - suspension
  

• Self-defense ends with a ticket and 30 days in the DAEP
  

Clear Creek ISD

• Special Ed student accused of alcohol consumption
  

• Class C for Curse Word
  

X - Cleburn ISD

• Alarm prank equals 36 days DAEP plus criminal citation
  

Cranfills Gap ISD

• Tussle between Valedictorian and Salutatorian keeps Valedictorian from walking stage - Sentenced to DAEP (Bosque County News - Pg1 & Pg2)
  

Comal ISD

• Leg Irons for setting off a sprinkler as prank
  

Conroe ISD

• Alleged indecency = JJAEP despite court decision of Not Guilty
  

• Boy Scout Pocket Knife
  

• False Fire Alarm
  

• Sharing asthma inhaler leads to arrest
  

• Remote control prank leads to arrest, charges
  

• Conroe ISD Code of Conduct on questioning
  

Copperas Cove ISD

• Student Suspended After Answering Call From Father Stationed in Iraq
  

X - Cy-Fair ISD

• Student's graffiti ends with arrest, 30 day DAEP
  

• Teacher misconduct--slams door on student's arm for alleged tardy
  

• Student suspended after finger gun incident
  

• Admitted self-defense = suspension - Post 171
  

• Citation for self-defense - Post-171
  

• From student: Frustrated utterance leads to prosecution, DAEP
  

• Another case of planted drugs - Cy-Fair, you have a problem
  

• Curse word from special ed student equals ticket
  

• Pocket knife ruins college dreams
  

• Beer vial
  

• Drug Scam
  

• Planted Drugs
  

• 10 year-old Special Education student continually punished without district working within behavior plan
  

Dallas ISD

• Fear of bullies leads student to bring throwing stars and pocketknife to school for self-defense - ends in JJAEP
  

Del Valle ISD

• Verbal altercation leads to 30-days in DAEP
  

X - Desoto ISD

• Trespassing citation during class
  

X - Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD

• Mistaken prescription medication - Post-171
  

X - Flour Bluff ISD

• Alleged cursing equals suspension; disorderly conduct ticket
  

X - Eanes ISD

• 7th grader receives six weeks in DAEP for pocketknife
  

Fort Bend ISD

• Lack of intent not considered - JJAEP
  

• Pocket knife equals jail time, JJAEP
  

  Grade Tampering Scandal (Summary)

• Alleged Grade Tampering (Student)
  

• Alleged Grade Tampering 2 (Student)
  

Fort Worth ISD

• Mini Bat deemed more threat than real bat
  

Friendswood ISD

• Alarm clock equals terroristic threat
  

Garland ISD

• Prop knife leads to 35 days in DAEP, criminal prosecution
  

Grand Prairie ISD

• Despite other students' piercings, new student finds academic career in ruin
  

Grapevine-Colleyville ISD

• Off-Campus Beer Consumption
  

Groveton ISD

• Swats for no homework
  

• More on Groveton ISD's use of corporal punishment
  

X - Hempstead ISD

• Self-defense leads to ticket, guilty verdict
  

Houston ISD

• Terroristic Threat
  

Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD

• Bread Knife in Truck Bed
  

Karnes City ISD

• Bullied child charged with making terroristic threat
  

This page provides links to reported cases of alleged abuse of disciplinary codes by individual Texas public school districts. These reported incidents are submitted by the parents or children and should always be weighed by this fact. Some have been reported in the media.

The policy of TZT is to never publish specific names of individuals involved in these reports to protect the identity of children, parents, and public school officials unless it is a media story. More on our policies...

Reported Cases of Alleged Disciplinary Policy Abuse in Individual Texas Independent School Districts

X - Katy ISD

• 15-year-old student arrested, held for 48 hours because of his belt buckle
  

• 1 Adderall = 24 hours in jail
  

• Graffiti Gets Girl 4 month stint in the Gulag
  

• Discretion overruled by central administration
  

• Flashing a "W" sign equals 3 month DAEP
  

• No action in bullying case
  

• Empty rum bottle equals DAEP
  

• Tennis ball as a deadly weapon
  

• Suicide Attempt
  

• No Due Process
  

• Intimidation
  

• Bullying
  

• False Accusation
  

Klein ISD

• Alleged Theft = Class "C"
  

• Girl protecting herself was issued ticket
  

• Time honored prank results in charges of sexual harassment, 30 days in DAEP
  

• Aledged personal display of affection (PDA) leads to 3-day OSS
  

La Vega ISD

• 4-year-old Hug of Teacher is Sexual Harassment
  

• More: Hug Heard 'Round the World
  

Lake Travis ISD

• Marker incident results in 9-weeks in DAEP
  

Leander ISD

• "Terroristic Threat" ends with Special Education student sent to DAEP
  

Lewisville ISD

• Illegal contact by law enforcement
  

X - Lexington ISD

• Eagle Time fine of $250
  

Lubbock ISD

• Silly String = DAEP
  

• Wearing a Red Shirt
  

Marble Falls ISD

• Curse Words result in DAEP
  

X - Maypearl ISD

• With no criminal charges filed, senior given 30-DAEP; not allowed in graduation ceremonies
  

X - Mesquite ISD

• Bullying and an unresponsive school district
  

X - Navasota ISD

• AK 47 threat not taken seriously
  

New Deal ISD

• Mooning incident leads to DAEP
  

North East ISD

• Indecency with a child?
  

• Martial Arts Star in Car Means Expulsion
  

Northside ISD

• Waving during Graduation Ceremony earns removal of student
  

Pasadena ISD

• Political Correctness earns 9-year-old a Reprimand
  

Pearland ISD

• (1)The Fight for Parental Rights; (2)Zero Tolerance as a Weapon
  

• Pipeline to Prison
  

Pittsburg ISD

• Charges of abusing the disciplinary system might have district reeling
  

Plano ISD

• Party Bus Incident leads to Charges of Inequity in Punishments
  

X - Round Rock ISD

• District strong-arm interrogation
  

• "Hit List" Yields 45-day DAEP, no charges filed by law enforcement
  

• Self-defense is punished
  

San Angelo ISD

• Alleged law enforcement abuse
  

Santa Fe ISD

• Unknown knife possession lands boy in JJAEP
  

X - Sequin ISD

• Perscription medications leads to 3--day DAEP with no consideration given to intention of student
  

Silsbee ISD

• Bullying victim becomes the punished
  

Sinton ISD

• Second Grader accused of slapping rear-ends treated as Sexual Predator
  

Soccoro ISD

• Prank in welding class ends with JJAEP
  

Spring ISD

• Girl handcuffed after defending herself
  

X - Spurger ISD

• Lack of zero tolerance insanity: Boy with knife has it taken away, returned to class
  

Student's Corner - Children's essays describing how the current disciplinary system in Texas has affected their lives

Tomball ISD

• Public schools promote lying over honesty in charge of racism
  

• Accusation of alarm tampering lands ten-year-old in the courts - DAEP
  

Waller ISD

• Petition concerning dress code - threatened with citation
  

X - White Settlement ISD

• 17-year-old misses bus, walks to school and is accused of being under the influence of drugs
  

Wichita Falls ISD

• "Sexual harassment" by a Six-Year-Old
  

Winona ISD

• Male student holds girl's arms as she attacks him, receives punishment as if he had hit her
  

Woodville ISD

• Cursing equals fine
  

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Update: With the passage of House Bill 171 in June 2009, Texas Zero Tolerance will begin listing new cases, as they come in, to measure the Bill’s effectiveness. In a nutshell, the new law mandates that school districts now take into account extenuating circumstances in deciding punishment. It also states that parents must be contacted within a 24-hour period of any punishment decisions. We are collecting both cases of where the law worked and did not work. We ask you to be patient as we update out website. If you submit a case, please understand that in most cases we will not contact you unless we feel clarification of your submission is necessary. Thanks.

School districts with X denotes incident after September 1, 2009 - when new law went into effect. New cases will be in Bold.

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Please note: Not all cases will be published - web administrator's discretion.

Outside of Texas

Henry County, Georgia

• District reaches into private lives of students
  

Hins County, Mississippi

• Mumbled threat receives expulsion, semester in reform school; the mother, who is teacher, suspended