Conservative Texas parents and teachers are backing a proposed bill that will allow police to ticket violent or disruptive students in hopes of identifying troubled youth.
The proposed legislation comes just weeks after a teen killed 19 students and two teachers at a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Family members who lost a sibling place flowers outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 25, 2022. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via TNS)
Texas State Rep. Steve Toth (R-Woodlands) told The Epoch Times that the bill for the 2023 legislative session would help identify students who fly under the legal radar because of laws based on restorative justice. Restorative justice focuses on mediation and agreement rather than punishment….