Some parents in a Texas school district are battling with an Elementary School over changes in school policy that forbid them from walking to the school to pick up their children.

Several of the parents at Bear Branch Elementary School in Magnolia, near Houston, said they’ve pulled their kids from the school over the change in policy.

School policy now says students must take the bus home or parents must wait in a long car pickup line, no matter how close the student lives to the school. Parents who have been walking with their children have been angered at the change in policy, or have tried to ignore it.

At least one parent said he’s gotten a citation from a Montgomery County Constable for being on school property, and several parents said they were threatened with arrest.

School officials say the change in policy was designed to make departures safer for students. But the parents said the school’s principal is ignoring the wishes of the families in her school.

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