A long list of school discipline reforms kicking in across Texas this week is mostly welcomed in Lubbock – but the biggest impact is no cell phones.
“It’s been really good to see the kids interacting in classrooms. Student conversation – student voice – is up. Students are engaged, so that has helped,” Bryan Ellyson, director of student and parent resolutions for Lubbock ISD said.
“If you go to lunch, there are campuses that are utilizing the old-school board games and so kids are playing board games. They’re having conversation face to face – conversations with each other. So, it’s been kind of cool to see. Even like the old-school method of passing notes has returned,” he added.
Texas classrooms will be “a far better place” this year, according to State Senator Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, who promoted the series of school discipline reforms. Perry told LubbockLights.com in March that classrooms had become a violent and dangerous “war zone.”…