Katy ISD reconsiders graffiti punishment for 12 year old

Houston Chronicle:

Katy Independent School District is reconsidering a decision to send a sixth-grader to alternative school for four months after she confessed to writing "I love Alex" on a school gymnasium wall with a baby blue sharpie.

Under a firestorm of widespread criticism, the district is researching discipline options for Shelby Sendelbach, a 12-year-old Mayde Creek Junior High School pupil who was punished by the district with a Level 4 infraction after writing the message in permanent ink.

The grafitti offense — on par with making terroristic threats, drug possession and assault — is punishable as a felony under the district's discipline plan. Only a Level 5 is more severe -- for murder, possessing firearms, aggravated or sexual assault and arson.

Meanwhile, the object of the girl's affection said Tuesday that he was flattered when he learned about the message but his advice to Shelby is that she should not do it again. Alex Mendoza, an eight-grader at the school, also said he was "really shocked" by all of the attention the incident has received. The two met in the school cafeteria.

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Superintendent Alton Frailey, who began working in the district on July 2, intends to discuss the case in a 5:30 p.m. closed door school board session on July 18 in the Katy ISD Education Support Complex, said district spokesman Steve Stanford.

"I am looking at what happened and what options we have per state law and local policy," Frailey said Tuesday. "It is always my practice to follow the law and policy while looking out for what is in the best interest of the individual student and the district as a whole."

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What ever happened to making students write "I want write graffiti on school property" a 100 times on the chalk board after class. that seems like a fair and reasonable punishment for a first offense love note. The new Superintendent sounds like he is in real trouble already since the law and policy don't seem to have much in common with the "best interest of the individual student" or the school district.

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