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In Fayetteville, GA, and inside Volusia County classrooms, a hidden reality snapped into place for the 2025–2026 season. Districts pushed through a quiet rollout of revised discipline protocols under an unprecedented legal loophole. Officials labeled the changes “clarifications.”
Families now live with the consequences. What schools and caregivers still call normal discipline now triggers a new threshold of scrutiny, data capture, and reporting that did not exist last year—and it spreads fast.
