Champion High teacher urges Boerne ISD to streamline phone-discipline policy
Get AI-powered insights, summaries, and transcripts
Subscribe
Summary
Teacher and parent Stephanie Dristus told trustees the district's new phone-discipline policy creates heavy documentary burdens in class (she cited 89 warnings in 84 class periods) and urged clearer consequences, fewer resets and alignment with nearby districts.
Stephanie Dristus, a parent and teacher at Champion High School, addressed the board during visitor comments to urge changes to the district's recently adopted phone-discipline policy. Dristus said the multi-step documentation process is burdensome for classroom teachers and undermines consistency because the policy resets every nine weeks.
"So far this year, I've taught 84 class periods. In that time, I have issued 89 warnings," Dristus said, and she extrapolated the effect: if a similar rate holds across a year, she warned the process could produce tens of thousands of warnings districtwide. She described the documentation process as time-consuming ("it takes me approximately 4 minutes that I'm away from students") and said that repeated resets limit accountability.
Dristus asked the board to consider aligning Boerne ISD's consequences with neighboring districts or implementing a stronger first-offense consequence that would reduce classroom interruptions. She suggested streamlining documentation and eliminating the periodic reset to improve enforcement consistency.
Board response: the president acknowledged the comment. There was no immediate motion to change policy; trustees asked staff to consider administrative options and feedback.