Posted on 04/26/2015 11:38:12 AM PDT by Lorianne
More than a thousand Texas teenagers have been ordered to lockup on charges that stem from missing school, often because they have unpaid court fines. The costs to their education are high. Some, like Serena Vela, never go back.
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“You’re just using up valuable public resources and tying up people’s time.”
That’s all the public schools are doing, anyway, by dumbing-down the work to the lowest common denominator so the smarter kids are bored spitless.
The world needs ditch diggers, too.
My folks always used to say that. My dad would probably fall over if he knew what a union ditch digger makes these days.
Why would you say that?
I believe entirely in my suggestion.
The only people who should be in school (after age 16) are ones who want to be there and want to be there to learn. Period.
If they don’t want to be there, what good is being served by making them be there?
I think I’m being misunderstood here. In my original post I said that IF anyone was to go to jail, it should be the parents.
That is not to say I think the parents should be locked up. And I certainly was not saying the kids should be incarcerated either.
Just trying to point out that it is the mother and the father who are responsible for the upbringing of their children, and ought to be held accountable for it. That’s the way I see it. Others may be of the opinion that the male and the female are not obligated to care for their offspring.
I think I’m being misunderstood here. In my original post I said that IF anyone was to go to jail, it should be the parents.
That is not to say I think the parents should be locked up. And I certainly was not saying the kids should be incarcerated either.
Just trying to point out that it is the mother and the father who are responsible for the upbringing of their children, and ought to be held accountable for it. That’s the way I see it. Others may be of the opinion that the male and the female are not obligated to care for their offspring.
School employees and the politicians who are owned by school employees' unions.
When the government didn’t step in and treat spanking a child like bull whipping a child you might have had a point.
In today’s legal climate your point fails to connect with reality.
“Texas is still just a bunch of backward-assed Neanderthals”, unlike California? How’s that working for you?
https://hspaustin.org/files/TruancyPamphlet2012.pdf
Texas Truancy Code provides for this penalty. The Legislature is in
session and some discussion has been held and the State Senate passed a
bill to decriminalize truancy. Time will tell if it becomes law.
Texas Senate approves measure to decriminalize truancy
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/state-politics/20150415-texas-senate-approves-measure-to-decriminalize-truancy.ece
So I can see the Liberals doing a pity party for those who get kick out, choose not to get an education after 8th grade or age 16. Let’s see, welfare benefits, food, housing funds because the poor kids didn’t finish school. They can’t get a job because they don’t have a HS diploma, no GED, blah blah. These kids will just be another type of burden on our already burdened cash flow system.
They already are a burden.
A HS degree doesn’t mean that you learned anything or that you are job worthy. I don’t see how forcing people to go to school when they don’t want to is going to make them better able to hold down a job, etc. And really how can you force a 16 year old to do anything they don’t want to do except by threat of force? And even threat of force cannot make someone learn if they do not want to learn (or are not capable of learning).
We have to face it that some people simply will refuse to improve themselves even when they are given the opportunity FREE OF CHARGE.
A certain number of dropouts will realize later on how much they were in error in turning down a free education. They will try to get their GED, learn a skill or improve themselves in other ways ... but a certain number will not do these things no matter what.
Well, we are different in that we don't let union goons disguised as school teachers hit our kids, and we don't fine and jail kids for truancy. Not many Ronnie Earls here, but I do think Ted Cruz is an exceptional man just like Ronald Reagan was. No question that we have a worthless government, but at least they are not backward-assed. Forward-assed, to be sure.
You are attributing the (admittedly) hostile and often contradictory legal climate as an excuse for poor parenting? In other words it takes a village? Surely you jest.
Then who is to be held to account?
How about the legislators, lawyers and judges who intruded into our homes.
I already said who.
Why are you defending them?
Are you another of the spankings equal child abuse crowd?
I’m putting blame where it belongs. It’s called personal responsibility - ever hear of it?
Blaming ‘judges, lawyers, and legislators’ for Mom and Dad raising an irresponsible spoiled brat is like blaming Town Hall because you keep getting into too many car accidents.
But apparently that’s beyond your reasoning ability. Well, as they say, you can’t argue with an idiot, and you can’t reason with a fool.
May your chains set lightly upon you.
A lack of comprehension on your part that arrest or CPS seizure of a child removes parents entirely negates any points you might have been trying to make.
Now, you make it clear that you personally know what is needed better than God, who created and sustains the universe. Your personal belief that your knowledge is superior to the bible makes it impossible to argue morality with you, because you have already declared that you are making your own morality.
Whom that he lord loveth, he also chasteneth.
God is the highest authority on child rearing, and his instructions on what is needed is diametrically opposed to the assumptions necessary for parents to still be able to reign in some children.
God is right, you are wrong.
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