Tens of thousands of Texas students as young as 10 receive tickets for Class C misdemeanors in school, most commonly for disrupting class, which is broadly defined in the Education Code to include such ordinary misbehavior as “emitting noise of an intensity that prevents or hinders classroom instruction.”
K-12 Education
A Bible-Shaped Hole in our Children’s Learning
Do you tell the young people in your life to follow The Golden Rule? Have you been urged to “turn the other cheek” instead of harming someone who has harmed you? Or maybe Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” is your favorite song, but you’re not sure where that hard line about “the valley of the shadow of...
February 5, 2026