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.
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.
Wow, that is ridiculous what they went through.