Sherman High law internship becomes paid job at Roesler & Roesler, district says

A Sherman High School graduate has turned a for-credit school internship into paid work at a Sherman law firm, according to Sherman ISD. The district said Jade Caballero, a member of Sherman High's Class of 2026, moved from a career and technical education law practicum at Roesler & Roesler Law Firm into a paid, part-time position at the same firm. Sherman ISD describes Caballero as an aspiring attorney.

The district identified the placement as part of a 12th-grade CTE practicum and said the internship at Roesler & Roesler became Caballero's current paid role. Sherman ISD presented the paid job as the outcome of that classroom-linked internship. Sherman ISD published the account through its district newsroom.

Sherman ISD's 2026-27 course selection guide lists the class as Practicum in Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security and assigns it two to three credits. The guide describes a work-based course that pairs time in a placement with credit toward graduation. It also states that students placed in internships through the course can be subject to a background check and random drug testing. In Caballero's case, according to the district, that placement was a working law office rather than one of the law-enforcement settings the course title also covers.

The course is not unique to Sherman. The Texas Education Agency lists Practicum in Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security, along with an extended-practicum option, within its statewide Law Enforcement program of study. That inclusion places the class inside a recognized state CTE pathway rather than a one-off local offering. The course carries the same title in Sherman ISD's guide and in the state agency's program-of-study document.

Nearby Gainesville High School offers a Law Enforcement CTE program of study under the same statewide category and publishes its own program page. The two schools fall under the same state heading, but the materials each publishes describe different emphases. Gainesville's page centers on law-enforcement concepts and names a Non-Commissioned Security Officer Level II certification as the credential students can earn. It does not describe a law-firm internship like the one Sherman ISD says led to Caballero's paid job at Roesler & Roesler.

Both programs trace to the state's Law Enforcement program of study, and the difference the two districts publish is one of emphasis rather than category.

Sherman ISD's account did not characterize the position beyond identifying it as paid, part-time work at Roesler & Roesler Law Firm. The district framed the outcome as the result of Caballero's internship at the firm.