In 2017 the Legislature directed the Texas Supreme Court to develop a form that a parent can use to seek an injunction to stop cyberbullying. Five years later, the Court has done its homework. What took so long? I have no idea.

But we have a draft of the form now: https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1454820/229074.pdf The Lege directed that the form be written without the usual legal gobbledygook, and I think that our Supreme Court has done a pretty good job on that. It’s almost informal, using the term “kid” instead of “student” “child” “minor” or “alleged perpetrator.” I did think it odd, however, that the form repeatedly refers to “the bully” rather than “the alleged bully.” What might be even better would be “the student who is alleged to have engaged in acts of cyberbullying.” But to keep it simple, the Supreme Court just calls “the kid” the “bully.”

You can take a look at this form and make comments on it from now until December 1. Then the Court will have to review those comments and, presumably, sometime in the next five years, issue the final form.

DAWG BONE: THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE TURN SLOWLY….VERY SLOWLY AT THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT.

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Tomorrow: why your school is not much like Noah’s Ark….