Update: Duncanville High School students reportedly rioting after more than 100 suspended for violat

[TexasTowelie]

Update at 1:58 p.m.: Students at Duncanville High School reportedly rioting after more than 100 suspended for violating district dress codes.

School officials and police have not confirmed.

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/05/more-than-100-duncanville-high-school-students-suspended-wednesday-for-dress-code-violations.html/

Separate report with video: http://www.wfaa.com/news/education/About-170-Duncanville-High-students-sent-home-over-dress-code-259268231.html

Related post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1078

[DhhD]

1. Every code and rule should be in the Secondary Student Handbook and followed from day 1.

Students receive protection by wearing a face-showing ID. That helps keep non students from coming on campus; like drug selling gang members or young adults/troublemakers. And when a student needs to be written up or a call made to parents, the name of the student, taken from the ID, leads to the parent(s). If my child were misbehaving at school, I would like to know. Removing the car keys on the weekend or being grounded one weekend enforces the rules at school. And the student learners are away from their studies when they are in the halls. They have tests to pass. Consider the objective here.

Again the main opposition is refusing to wear a face-showing ID, making the student responsible for his choices, good and bad. Students may have a racket going; organized resistance or fight videos. Surly, Face Book is scrambled for the immediate campus. No cells phone videos should be allowed in class. No cell phones at all during tests.

Again, the real reason for the turmoil is refusing to wear an ID. ID checks should be made EACH day. The other stuff is just a cover.

[TexasTowelie]

2. It is the inconsistency of the administration to not enforce the policies from the beginning of

school which is the primary cause of the problem.

To have them wait until three weeks before the end of the school year gave the students a lax attitude about the enforcement of the policies. I wonder if any of the students will be suspended so that they end up missing their final exams.

[DhhD]

3. Wait a minute. Parents may have been going to the school board members telling them they

that they do not want their children wearing IDs or they do want the student to be able to answer text messages between parents and students DURING class. This is especially true for districts having multiple high schools and very diverse neighborhoods. Talking on cell phones during class was stopped several years ago by most schools. (You talk on a cell phone while a college teacher is talking and you are dismissed for the rest of the semester.) The student handbook rules can delayed by parents/school board. Uniforms and student IDs are ways of protecting the students. The police can concentrate on students or persons not wearing an ID if a disturbance enters or erupts on campus. Cameras help with protection too. It is a state law that visitors coming in to a school must first come to the office where proper identification is given if they need to be in the building beyond the office. Visitors get a pictured stick-on ID, made from their driver's license.

[DhhD]

4. In school suspension or out of school suspension never results in loss of any work provided or

work accepted for grading. Saturday School is set up for discipline and making up Time per Texas Education Code. Teachers must provide tutorials in which makeup work can be done. No excuses are necessary.