Missed meetings could mean jail time for parents

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[JoeProBono]

DETROIT (AP) -- The night Demarco Harris shot and killed a woman during a robbery on a Detroit street, his parents told police knocking on their door at 2 a.m. they didn't know where their 12-year-old was.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said that's indicative of a larger issue in Detroit, where the lack of making parents accountable for their children partly is blamed on elevated truancy and dropout rates, as well as a recent rash of violent crimes involving teens.

Worthy has a new idea she hopes will fix the problem: Jail parents for up to three days for repeatedly missing scheduled parent-teacher conferences.......

[EternalVigilance]

Who is accountable for the destruction of English by the Associated Press?

I was wondering the same thing.

This particular editor deserves at least three days in the stocks.

[Mac from Cleveland]

Sorry for the delayed response.

In 1950 a bastard child was far more likely to be white.

Not true-not nearly true. In the early 60s, Moynihan and others had black out of wedlock births at 25-30% versus a rate of 3 to 5% for whites.

Now whites are around 30%. Still far less than the, what is it?-something like 75% rate for blacks. That's progress.

/s

[Publius6961]

...and some will likely make accusations of slavery.

I certainly hope so!
It should be a class action suit on behalf of working taxpayers...

Every working parent has standing as plaintiff.