REVIEWED DISCIPLINE MANAGEMENT ITEMS EVERY YEAR:

The Discipline Management Plan is a document that is updated every year with interpretations of Texas State Laws that are worded and forwarded by the Texas Association of School Boards.  (The Texas Association of School Boards is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that is discussed elsewhere on this web site and to whom thousands of dollars are given for various and sundry services that Katy ISD may or may not need.)

Their main function, and the one that gets them in the door, has to do with the legal interpretations that they provide to school districts. I suppose the reasoning is that local attorneys are incapable of interpreting State Law for local school districts. 

After the Legislature meets, at six month intervals for the next two years, TASB send updates to the local districts.  These policy updates for each district's Policy Manual are then morphed into the Discipline Management Plan (DMP) booklet that is provided for each student at the beginning of the school year.

The revised version of the DMP appears in the spring for the School Board to peruse.  I can tell you with much certainty that I am the only board member who ever spent more than ten minutes looking at the changes for these two important documents.

Actually I spent hours looking at the changes and then visited with Bonnie Holland, who is the only person in the District who knows anything at all about the law or the rules governing the school district, where we went over each of my questions or concerns.  Mrs. Holland was always very polite and kind about indulging my questions.  I thought it necessary for at least one board member to know what it was that was being changed.

Elsewhere on this website I recall the time when the superintendent (Hayes), with no approval from the Board, inserted the definition for "public lewdness" in the DMP.  On the first day of school, a grandparent of a child called me at home to complain about the DMP.  Her grandchild had been instructed in writing to read the DMP with an adult family member, and had been forced to read this definition.

No one would want a child under 16 reading the definition.  That episode is chronicled elsewhere on this web site.

Fortunately, I still had my draft copy that I had read and on which the Board had based its decision to approve the Plan--and there was no such definition there. That proved that the superintendent had stuck that awful definition in AFTER the Board approval (and who knows how many other things got treated in such a manner).  So he got to take the blame.  It was the beginning of the end of his KISD career.

I would venture to say that I am the only Katy ISD Board member ever who read and questioned changes to the Policy Manual and/or the Discipline Management Plan in a comprehensive manner.