http://www.fox26houston.com/news/117783912-story

Quote:Pick your child up from school and you could be charged with trespassing. That's the threat against parents at Bear Branch Elementary School in Magnolia ISD. This is the school's tactic to keep parents who live close to the school from walking on school grounds.

Bear Branch is losing students over this pick up policy, that's been in place since the beginning of this school year. The principal has decided that no matter how close the student lives to the school, the student must either take the bus, or the parent must wait in a long car pickup line. Try to walk your student off the campus and you could face criminal charges.

Quote:Ray won't allow it. Ray has gotten Montgomery County Constables to be her enforcers.

"This has happened to many parents," Jarman says. "They have been cited. They have been threatened, if they step one foot on school property, they will be arrested and charged with who knows what."

Frank Young has one of those warnings. He also lives close to the school and he also pulled his children out of it. Young says no effort to negotiate a better policy or even hundreds of signatures on a petition got the district to change the policy or bully tactics.

"Mrs. Ray's policy is implying that a parent doesn't have the ability or capabiity to decide what is safest for her children and that the school district does," Young says. "I disagree."

that's insane. Wonder what they would do if they knew my kid bikes to school by herself.

I'm calling b.s. on this. There is no way in heck that a principal can stop anyone from walking their kid to school. These parents are idiots for accepting a citation for such behavior.

Dominated. Controlled. Suspected. Taped. Warned. Threatened. Cited.

Vote Public Schools 2016!

(04-07-2016 12:40 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  http://www.fox26houston.com/news/117783912-story

Quote:Pick your child up from school and you could be charged with trespassing. That's the threat against parents at Bear Branch Elementary School in Magnolia ISD. This is the school's tactic to keep parents who live close to the school from walking on school grounds.

Bear Branch is losing students over this pick up policy, that's been in place since the beginning of this school year. The principal has decided that no matter how close the student lives to the school, the student must either take the bus, or the parent must wait in a long car pickup line. Try to walk your student off the campus and you could face criminal charges.

Quote:Ray won't allow it. Ray has gotten Montgomery County Constables to be her enforcers.

"This has happened to many parents," Jarman says. "They have been cited. They have been threatened, if they step one foot on school property, they will be arrested and charged with who knows what."

Frank Young has one of those warnings. He also lives close to the school and he also pulled his children out of it. Young says no effort to negotiate a better policy or even hundreds of signatures on a petition got the district to change the policy or bully tactics.

"Mrs. Ray's policy is implying that a parent doesn't have the ability or capabiity to decide what is safest for her children and that the school district does," Young says. "I disagree."

That is crazy. I live next to an elementary school and "most" of the parents walk with their kids and other kids walk themselves.

Time to get the state involved. Another low level official(s) who believe they are god above the people.

School officials often think they are absolute overlords of their tiny domains.

Citizens often let them be.

(04-07-2016 12:50 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  I'm calling b.s. on this. There is no way in heck that a principal can stop anyone from walking their kid to school. These parents are idiots for accepting a citation for such behavior.

Seems that way doesn't it but nope, this is true and just another example of our great school leaders in action. I saw this on the news last night and just shook my head. It's absurd.

(04-07-2016 01:13 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 12:50 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  I'm calling b.s. on this. There is no way in heck that a principal can stop anyone from walking their kid to school. These parents are idiots for accepting a citation for such behavior.

Seems that way doesn't it but nope, this is true and just another example of our great school leaders in action. I saw this on the news last night and just shook my head. It's absurd.

The Principal might be crazy but the parents are stupid for not knowing their rights.

The Principal has no power over anyone outside of school grounds.

(04-07-2016 01:21 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 01:13 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 12:50 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  I'm calling b.s. on this. There is no way in heck that a principal can stop anyone from walking their kid to school. These parents are idiots for accepting a citation for such behavior.

Seems that way doesn't it but nope, this is true and just another example of our great school leaders in action. I saw this on the news last night and just shook my head. It's absurd.

The Principal might be crazy but the parents are stupid for not knowing their rights.

The Principal has no power over anyone outside of school grounds.

The sherrif has issued citations. He is the law. I thought schools had power outside of school grounds, suspending a kid for a social media post, underage drinking off of school grounds can be monitired etc?

I don't agree with the above of course.

(04-07-2016 01:29 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 01:21 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 01:13 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 12:50 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  I'm calling b.s. on this. There is no way in heck that a principal can stop anyone from walking their kid to school. These parents are idiots for accepting a citation for such behavior.

Seems that way doesn't it but nope, this is true and just another example of our great school leaders in action. I saw this on the news last night and just shook my head. It's absurd.

The Principal might be crazy but the parents are stupid for not knowing their rights.

The Principal has no power over anyone outside of school grounds.

The sherrif has issued citations. He is the law. I thought schools had power outside of school grounds, suspending a kid for a social media post, underage drinking off of school grounds can be monitired etc?

I don't agree with the above of course.

That is incorrect. The only way they can punish a kid or parents outside of school is if what they did had an effect on students while at school.

For example social media.

The Principal cannot instruct law enforcement to give citations to parents off of school grounds and the sheriff should not even be doing that.

(04-07-2016 01:39 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 01:29 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 01:21 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 01:13 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 12:50 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  I'm calling b.s. on this. There is no way in heck that a principal can stop anyone from walking their kid to school. These parents are idiots for accepting a citation for such behavior.

Seems that way doesn't it but nope, this is true and just another example of our great school leaders in action. I saw this on the news last night and just shook my head. It's absurd.

The Principal might be crazy but the parents are stupid for not knowing their rights.

The Principal has no power over anyone outside of school grounds.

The sherrif has issued citations. He is the law. I thought schools had power outside of school grounds, suspending a kid for a social media post, underage drinking off of school grounds can be monitired etc?

I don't agree with the above of course.

That is incorrect. The only way they can punish a kid or parents outside of school is if what they did had an effect on students while at school.

For example social media.

The Principal cannot instruct law enforcement to give citations to parents off of school grounds and the sheriff should not even be doing that.

The bold part I think is not accurate.

It's Texas, don't we have to wait until the high school football coach weighs in?

(04-07-2016 02:45 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

I knew it. These parents aren't getting citations for walking their kids to school. They are getting citations for walking onto school property.

I knew this was B.S.

(04-07-2016 02:48 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 02:45 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

I knew it. These parents aren't getting citations for walking their kids to school. They are getting citations for walking onto school property.

I knew this was B.S.

Parents should all show up together, chain themselves to the school, throw jars of fake blood onto the sidewalk, and call it social activism.

Claim that waiting in line with cars unnecessarily adds to global warming.

You have to know how to work these things.

(04-07-2016 02:48 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 02:45 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

I knew it. These parents aren't getting citations for walking their kids to school. They are getting citations for walking onto school property.

I knew this was B.S.

Why can't they walk onto school property?
They are the taxpaying public. It is PUBLIC property.

(04-07-2016 02:53 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 02:48 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 02:45 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

I knew it. These parents aren't getting citations for walking their kids to school. They are getting citations for walking onto school property.

I knew this was B.S.

Parents should all show up together, chain themselves to the school, throw jars of fake blood onto the sidewalk, and call it social activism.

Claim that waiting in line with cars unnecessarily adds to global warming.

You have to know how to work these things.

They should also not shower for weeks, take dumps on the sidewalk and on school vehicles, demand police protection in their safe space, and then demand the school district pay them for their time. That sounds familiar.

(04-07-2016 02:48 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 02:45 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

I knew it. These parents aren't getting citations for walking their kids to school. They are getting citations for walking onto school property.

I knew this was B.S.

What is wrong with that. Parents do it every day at the school here. Parents play with with kids on school property, walk with them up to the door, wait for them near the front door. Again this is about making parents take their kids to school in a car or they have to take the bus.

(04-07-2016 02:54 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 02:48 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(04-07-2016 02:45 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

I knew it. These parents aren't getting citations for walking their kids to school. They are getting citations for walking onto school property.

I knew this was B.S.

Why can't they walk onto school property?
They are the taxpaying public. It is PUBLIC property.

I agree that parents should be allowed to walk their kids up to the school door, but using the taxpayer logic would open a can of worms where anyone living in the school district would feel the right to walk on school grounds simply because they pay taxes for the school.