James Woodard, Guardian of Rayellea Woodard, a Child v. Los Fresnos Independent School District

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

The issue is whether a high school student was denied due process of law when she was given three punitive spanks for using abusive languge to a school bus driver. School regulations permitted parents to choose the appropriate form of punishment for their children. The student’s mother chose three days’ suspension. The student requested that, instead of being suspended, she be disciplined by three strikes with a paddle. We hold that this departure from school rules at the minor’s request was not a denial of her constitutional rights. This was at most a tort for…