This is a reason to declare her kids out of control?
I won't even get into the idea of punishing people to force them to send their kids to those kiddy prisons they call "schools". For the record, BAD IDEA.
Not factored in is: when is a truancy citation issued? Not likely it’s for each instance, so perhaps she received a citation after 5 or 10 individual acts of truancy.
It would help to know what reason(s) were behind her kids’ persistent truancy? In a family of 7 kids, no father, there are probably so many issues. Were any health-related? Certainly she was receiving medicaid for the kids if her income was low or non-existent?
I had one child who was sick continuously throughout his school years. In one school year, I think he was in the hospital once a month; another he was out for four straight months. His absences/tardies were generally but not always understood by the school staff. In the case of one teacher it took her own spending a night in the ER to begin to understand my kid’s plight. Nonetheless, my other kids managed to get to school on time, even if we’d been up all night @ the ER. So I’m not sure if any of the “truancies” were justified. Way too much information missing in the story.