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Replacing school discipline with criminal enforcement

After a commenter self-styled "College Cop" and I have been discussing the merits of school campus police in Grits comments the last few days (in posts here and here), I was interested to see a story from the Texas Tribune on ticket writing by police in public schools ("Tickets for 10 year olds?," June 2). Here's how the story opens:With the rise of get-tough juvenile crime policies across Texas, the municipal courthouse has become the new principal?s office for thousands of students who get in fights, curse their teachers or are generally ?disorderly? on school campuses ? even in elementary schools, according to data collected from school systems by Texas Appleseed, a nonprofit research and advocacy group focusing on social and economic justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).