Tex.
Educ. Code Section 37.002
Removal by Teacher
(a)
A teacher may send a student to the campus behavior coordinator’s office to maintain effective discipline in the classroom. The campus behavior coordinator shall respond by employing appropriate discipline management techniques consistent with the student code of conduct adopted under Section 37.001 (Student Code of Conduct) that can reasonably be expected to improve the student’s behavior before returning the student to the classroom. If the student’s behavior does not improve, the campus behavior coordinator shall employ alternative discipline management techniques, including any progressive interventions designated as the responsibility of the campus behavior coordinator in the student code of conduct.(b)
A teacher may remove from class a student:(1)
who has been documented by the teacher to repeatedly interfere with the teacher’s ability to communicate effectively with the students in the class or with the ability of the student’s classmates to learn; or(2)
whose behavior the teacher determines is so unruly, disruptive, or abusive that it seriously interferes with the teacher’s ability to communicate effectively with the students in the class or with the ability of the student’s classmates to learn.(b-1)
A teacher may document any conduct by a student that does not conform to the student code of conduct adopted under Section 37.001 (Student Code of Conduct) and may submit that documentation to the principal. A school district may not discipline a teacher on the basis of documentation submitted under this subsection.(c)
If a teacher removes a student from class under Subsection (b), the principal may place the student into another appropriate classroom, into in-school suspension, or into a disciplinary alternative education program as provided by Section 37.008 (Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs). The principal may not return the student to that teacher’s class without the teacher’s consent unless the committee established under Section 37.003 (Placement Review Committee) determines that such placement is the best or only alternative available. The terms of the removal may prohibit the student from attending or participating in school-sponsored or school-related activity.(d)
A teacher shall remove from class and send to the principal for placement in a disciplinary alternative education program or for expulsion, as appropriate, a student who engages in conduct described under Section 37.006 (Removal for Certain Conduct) or 37.007 (Expulsion for Serious Offenses). The student may not be returned to that teacher’s class without the teacher’s consent unless the committee established under Section 37.003 (Placement Review Committee) determines that such placement is the best or only alternative available. If the teacher removed the student from class because the student has engaged in the elements of any offense listed in Section 37.006 (Removal for Certain Conduct)(a)(2)(B) or Section 37.007 (Expulsion for Serious Offenses)(a)(2)(A) or (b)(2)(C) against the teacher, the student may not be returned to the teacher’s class without the teacher’s consent. The teacher may not be coerced to consent.(e)
A student who is sent to the campus behavior coordinator’s or other administrator’s office under Subsection (a) or removed from class under Subsection (b) is not considered to have been removed from the classroom for the purposes of reporting data through the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) or other similar reports required by state or federal law.
Source:
Section 37.002 — Removal by Teacher, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.37.htm#37.002 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).
