A Texas law that took effect last year gives teachers more authority to remove disruptive students from their classrooms.
That may help teachers control their classrooms. But some lawyers and professors are concerned about whether enough attention is being paid to helping resolve the underlying causes of those students’ behavior.
“We’re starting to skip the helping the kids part,” said Johnny Nhan, a criminology professor at Texas Christian University. “We’re just going straight to the punishment part.”…