Chapter 37 of the Texas Education Code

A Texas school district apologized this week for altering a photo of a high school homecoming queen posted on its website.

Police in North Texas took into custody an eighth grade female student for allegedly bringing marijuana-spiked chocolate chip cookies to school. On Tuesday, they charged her with a felony for the possession of a controlled substance.

Children across Texas are heading back to school but two boys, in different parts of the state, got sent home because their flowing tresses violated grooming policies for males. Their parents are up in arms, claiming “discrimination” and “sexism.”

Trustees at the Houston Independent School District approved a proposal to retake control over its Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP), the place where middle and high school students all too often wind up after breaking school rules, only to find themselves in the school-to-prison pipeline.

A black Texas high school senior, who decided to dress up as a slave for a campus costume event, says school officials told him to change his outfit to avoid making anyone feel uncomfortable. The school district says otherwise.

Ahmed Mohamed, the teen known as “Clock Boy,” may be back in Texas within days. After nine months of living in his new homeland, Qatar, he reportedly feels homesick.

In theory, school dress codes and grooming policies intend to thwart distractions by fostering conformity and compliance to an established norm but two Texas students in different parts of the state recently learned that sometimes sporting a ponytail can result in potential suspension or worse, expulsion, all because of school zero tolerance policies.

A group of Texas parents are complaining to school officials that the zero-tolerance punishments for prom night consumption of alcohol are not strong enough.

An afternoon dismissal pickup policy change at one Texas elementary school has a lot of parents rip-roaring mad. It forbids them from walking their own children home at the end of the school day. Breaking this rule can result in trespassing charges or truancy classes for mom and dad.

School district officials investigate a bevy of brawls that broke out at a Texas all-girls academy this week, discovered because the cellphone shot videos of them were prominently posted on social media as part of a happening called “Beat Week.”

One Texas high school senior got something he never imagined when he popped the “promposal” question this week — three days of out-of-school suspension (OSS).

Instead of praise, a Central Texas school district suspended a 15-year-old boy when he rushed a classmate, who was in the throes of an asthma attack, to the school nurse’s office in yet another incident of zero tolerance policies overriding common sense. This follows last week’s double suspensions for two North Texas students, which also involved an asthma attack.

A 12-year-old North Texas middle school honor student never imagined her “Good Samaritan” intentions to help an asthmatic classmate struggling to breathe would result in her being punished by her school’s zero-tolerance policies, all because she offered up her asthma inhaler.

Anyone can sue and so “Clock Boy” Ahmed is contemplating suing. He and his family may want $15 million, but a Texas juvenile law expert says his claims have little merit to win a case in court.

Every step of the way, the media has attacked popular Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne, accusing her of being an Islamophobe following the “Clock Boy” Ahmed Mohamed incident that unfolded in the Dallas surburb. While news outlets glorify the teen’s every move, they trash the conservative mayor incessantly.

Terrified of bullying from gangs, an East Texas teen claimed as his rationale for bringing a backpack handgun into high school last week. The teen’s mother confirmed the motivation. “Safe school” policies resulted in his arrest for unlawfully carrying a weapon in a prohibited place.

Ahmed Mohamed’s school discipline problems started long before bringing a homemade suitcase clock accused of being a “hoax bomb” into a Texas public school. The 14-year-old Irving high school freshman turned citizen-of-the-world celebrity sports a middle school history of detention, suspension, and even an incident where he tried to smart mouth his way out trouble by reciting his First Amendment rights to the principal, which landed him in hot water in these zero tolerance times.

Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dallas-Fort Worth director Alia Salem said that is Ahmed Mohamed’s name was “Jimmy,” school district officials in Irving, Texas, would not have jumped to the conclusion that his clock project was a bomb hoax.

A North Texas teen acted in self-defense when he was being bullied in the school showers. He was suspended for his actions. Now, his parents, upset over that suspension, filed a lawsuit against the school district.