The 8-year-old living in a homeless shelter and attending a school overwhelmed with transient children — where truancy can be a sign of something dangerous — racks up 30 absences before someone has the time to notice.
But over in the Other City, where some D.C. public schools are as fancy as their neighborhood, the little concert pianist is collared and the truancy police are on high alert."
Translation - Get the white girl ...
Sue the District for denying opportunity from their child.
Take the kid out of government school and avoid contact with government to the maximum extent possible.
She will be better off in the long run.
Michelle don’t like Chopin or Mozart.
There needs to be a harsh prison for all bureaucrat bullies. Death Valley or Northeast Alaska. Condemned has choice of freeze or bake..
Why wouldn’t playing in a concert be considered for an excused absence, unless the parents/teacher failed to apply in advance??? Do you know which school this was?
In D.C., truancy means actually going to school.
It’s a good thing W.A. Mozart didn’t go to school in D.C. As he started playing piano and composing before he was 6, he would have been thrown out of kindergarten and banished to the local reform school for re-education.
Washington, D.C. (District of Cretins)
Someone should accuse her of being gay, ... or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG6z8xldTwY
Her mother is Asian; if she shot a black thug, she’d be a “white Asian.”
The ten day rule applies in our district too.
The way around it is to plan ahead and get a study packet.
Students like this should ALWAYS be HOMESCHOOLED!
The truant officer:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jemea-goso/b/b33/578
Jealous of talent? Committed to leveling the piano-playing field? Or is she just a nasty, affirmative action idiot?
Mozart and Chopin were white Europeans, so the music is considered a form of hate speech.
Well....since she does go to Public School....child abuse. I firmly believe the school has the right to make the rules. She didn’t abide by them and should suffer the consequences. Couldn’t her parents call and say, “She is out today”. Unexcused absences are lazy anyway.
It’s not about the kidz. ...it a money thing.
If the above statement is true, it is hard to see any rationale for the decision to label this gifted young woman a "truant". Typical public school idiocy!
Being good at piano shouldn’t get you a pass. Read up on James Booker — one of the greatest piano players ever. He took every drug and performed every vile act there was. He was as evil as evil can be.
Proud Truant. She is not losing much by avoiding high school these days.
I wonder if there’s fed money involved in some way in regards to truancy rates, etc.?