Posted on 12/16/2018 10:13:05 AM PST by Kaslin
Junior highs are cracking down on truancy across the nation. Some Oklahoma school are going even so far as handcuffing middle schoolers and taking them to the slammer according to NBC 16 WNDU.
Muskogee Public Schools arrested a 14-year-old in Tulsa, OK at school after he missed too many classes. His mother is outraged and says the arrest was an act of abuse.
via NBC 16 WNDU
"Its my fault! Exactly! Its not my 14 year old sons fault. He doesn't have a car to get himself there."
Stephanie - who doesn't want to use her last name - says she's upset her son, a student at Alice Robertson Junior High, was treated like a criminal.
"I could visibly see marks on his wrists, Stephanie said.
Stephanie takes full responsibility for her son's missed absences, but questions why the school had to go to such drastic measures for her son.
"Even if it's 20, they shouldn't have handcuffed him in front of everybody." But she also said that most of the days he missed were simply from being sick and excused with a doctor's note. As for those that weren't excused, the mother said, "Kids get sick, and they don't always have to have a doctors note."
However, the school district says what they did was perfectly legal.
via NBC 16 WNDU:
"Four absences in a four week period can lead to a possible citation. That's Oklahoma state statute. Its been on the books for decades now, said Steve Braun, Director of Communications at Muskogee Public Schools.
Muskogee Public Schools says they can't comment on specific cases, but Braun says on the fifth absence, a citation is issued and parents must sign, which he says they typically do.
Parent comes in, signs the citation, and goes about the day."
But Stephanie insists that the experience was "traumatizing" and "unacceptable."
I think you are right. That jumped out at me immediately.
“Huh, what?! What if a kid has the flu? Chicken pox? Measles? Is in a hospital? That makes no sense.”
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It says, “...CAN lead” to a citation...not “WILL lead”.
Every absent butt costs the district aid money. This isnt about kids getting an education. Its about putting butts in seats to get state aid.
Sounds a lot like slavery, if you ask me. Or actually, more like kidnapping.
I’d be serving a life sentence.
“I never let school interfere with my education.”
-Samuel Clemens
My neighbors youngest daughter was a sickly child in kindergarten. She had doctors notes for all but two absences and was under the level of absences that they call "truant".
She was also under six years of age and legally she could not be truant.
The school wrote a letter to her parents threatening them with jail time and the loss of custody of all three of their children.
They sent the "School Resource Officer" (a deputy sheriff) out to harass them during the summer when school was out.
Based on that they decided not to enroll her in first grade in that school system and send her to a private school.
The SRO went and had a warrant sworn out against them saying their daughter was truant. They then sent in the CPS who demanded that they produce their daughter as she was considered a "child in danger".
They met with the CPS at their daughter's new school, went to court and was told the case against them was dismissed.
A year later she was stopped for a traffic ticket and was told there was a warrant out on her. They got a lawyer, the CPS once again was demanding they produce their daughter for a "wellness check".
It finally stopped when they got a lawyer that promised to sue the school system and the sheriff's department if they did not go away and quit harassing this family.
The public school systems are out of control and should be shut down.
wheres his father in this story?
Mother needs to be arrested for educational neglect. She sounds like her kid missing major parts of school courses is perfectly OK. Why can’t her son get a school bus to take him to school, if getting there is a problem? She is probably a disheveled piece of trash.
The public school systems are out of control and should be shut down.
A do-nothing coward’s way out by just shutting the schools down. If there is to be change in schools it needs to start with getting the right people in the right places. It took the demonRats years to do this. And yes if we use the same tactics the demonRats did we too can impact schools for the better but the cowardly thing to do is just shut it down. This would be akin to doing nothing.
Conservatives never want to get involved, they just like to complain.
Meanwhile the liberals do get involved, and that’s why they’ve infiltrated all of our institutions.
Yes, I do feel like got suckered into reading this. Not nearly enough information for a meaningful opinion. That said, we are not citizens; we are revenue sources and that is the way school administrators view any child.
It would be like trying to "fix" the UN.
It is a sniveling weakling cowering in their chains who thinks that it can be fixed and if we just got the "right" kind of people to boss us around everything would be ok.
Government schools are evil.
The very concept of public schooling is wrong so there is no way to “fix” it.
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There is a lot...and I mean A LOT wrong with public education. I know because I’m in it. I’ve thought many times that things would be much better if many public schools simply didn’t exist.
That being said, there is no way public schools are going away. An extinction event or something similar would have to occur. I’ve often thought if simply quitting and going back to the private sector (and someday I may have to), but then I have one thought that keeps coming back to me: I’m not surrenduring these kids to the Left-wing nutcases that work all around me. I’m simply not doing it. And if all these Leftards that I work with can earn high salaries for spreading their Leftism, why can’t I use the same racket to pay me to counter their BS?
Beltloop?? You had a beltloop? We used to DREAM of having beltloops! We wore empty flour sacks held together with fish hooks!
Whistle their tune? wtf, did you read what I wrote? . I blame the mother who is too stupid to get her kid to school. I dont approve of the school arresting the kid at school while hes in school. Send a case worker to the kids home to talk to the parents and hear the larwnts out. and then consider the kid may be in a troubled home and may need to be placed with foster care.
She better not send the kid to school when he has the flu, or chickenpox, or the measles or any other contagious illness. How is he supposed to school when he is in the hospital?
And flour? FLOUR?? We made our leaf sandwiches out of bark and leaf...but we flossed with wild rose...
...and by cracky we kept our tooth clean!!
I am reminded of something funny. My oldest son started Kindergarten in Germany when my husband was stationed there. We lived on the economy in a little town about 10 miles from the post where my husband was stationed. The wife of one of my husband's fellow soldiers, told us about their little son who was in my son's kindergarten class. Instead of getting out of the school bus, he smiled and waved at her when the bus stopped.
Wow, that is ridiculous what they went through.
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