 It's always in the back of my mind like they like they really took your kid to jail That's her and her little sister First day to seventh grade Traveza had been doing good been having a wonderful years thus far and then all of a sudden She was horse-climbing in a hallway with another kid and the kid accidentally ended up getting burned Traveza Jackson got hot glue on a classmate's arm during a school project It was on the afternoon because we were playing running around and I was acting like I was going to touch with the glue And I just moved his arm and the stick touched his arm They said it was an assault After was they telling me that I was going to GV and I went What was it like? Like jail? How did you feel? Although the injured students family chose not to press charges, Traveza was arrested Juvenile Hall staff patted her down cut off her hair extensions and locked her up for three days She served six more days of suspension than 12 days in an alternative school. She had never been suspended out of school before All that was her punishment and she's only 13 years old What Traveza and her mother didn't know was that the federal government had been investigating the brian schools for years for racial bias and discipline Around the country black students in public schools are nearly four times as likely as white students to be suspended from school And twice as likely to be arrested What we know from research and data is that black children and latino children are not more likely to actually Misbehave they are just more likely to be punished and that's really really dangerous for students Kids are less likely to graduate on time. They're more likely to be held back And they're more likely to have contact with the justice system in the future In 2013 Texas Appleseed and the NAACP's legal defense fund filed a complaint against the brian school district for disproportionately punishing black students Under the obama administration closing the racial gap in school discipline was a top priority Routine school discipline infraction should land a student in the principal's office not in a police precinct By early 2017 the education department had found 10 cases in brian Where black students were punished more harshly than white students for the same behavior Including two at travejas middle school Draft documents showed the district was planning to change its disciplinary policies But a few months later the trump administration began to limit the scope of civil rights investigations in schools around the country Eight months into the trump administration the education department closed the investigation in brian and abandoned the proposed reforms It is so clear both from the data and from the stories of the students and parents who are in that school district That's something inappropriate Was and you can see still is going on brian's superintendent of schools says the district complied with the federal investigation and no discrimination was found She says the district is already implementing positive discipline interventions hiring additional support staff and increasing guidelines for parental involvement Traveja is a real good kid. She's very smart very outgoing My daughter had to go through all that and you know and be Traumatized because she's so afraid to do anything now. It's like to her whole mind frame and everything has changed Traveja is back in the alternative school for a second time According to her mother school surveillance video shows a classmate picked a fight with her It's just like jail horrible. It's putting more pressure on me You don't do who works like you do in school. You just do computers all day eight hours So she's missing out on mainly all her basic English language writing the math, you know the real work that is supposed to be given to her School administrators now say traveja may have to repeat seventh grade Students who are held back are up to six times more likely to drop out of school I still you know get sad inside because just looking at my daughter and looking at how pretty she is and how bright I want her to be for her future. It's heartbreaking to know that you actually got locked up