Posted on 05/12/2008 12:49:06 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
A northern Kentucky man is in jail today – serving a 180-day sentence – because his 18-year-old daughter failed a math test and didn't get her General Equivalency Diploma, or GED, as a previous court order required.
Brittany Gegner, the daughter, says if anyone should be jailed, it should be her.
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Butler County Juvenile Court Judge David Niehaus ordered Gegner to jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor by not following a court order which required Gegner to be sure his daughter got her GED.
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“Progressive infantilization of citizens” is right. So what if these kids want to drop out? It’s called freedom. With freeedom come consequences, which are on them. I don’t believe that the state or parents can or should make these kids do anything.
Hmm, interesting point...
Like all misguided but well intended laws that interfere with our freedoms these laws escalated out of control. We don't need the state to make it unlawful to attend school, we don't need the state to jail parents because their kids don't go to school.
What we need is for the state to stay the hell out of our lives, all parts of it, except for the bare minimum which I won't go into here, and let us, as parents, take care of our kids as we see fit.
Some of you will twist my words thinking that I mean we should be able to abuse our children(which I don't believe at all), mainly because you are not real conservatives and will use any argument to justify the fact you let the state control you and your children.
Get the government out of our lives, just as many children would graduate as do now, maybe more. They had high graduation rates in the past without all these crappy laws(and kids were better educated) and they would now if these laws were dropped.
I think there is more to this story than what is being said imho..
VERY simple explanation...are ya ready? Because the judge is in Butler County OHIO. The dad lives in Northern Kentucky.
Strange story.
Yet another judge who should be removed from the bench.
It means that (in general) I think WND articles are nutty.
She didn’t believe the court would really follow through because I have a feeling her parents never followed through on much of anything raising her. She got a heck of a surprise.
1.You are correct, the father has practically no way to “legally” force her to study.
2. And how did the role of the State to educate childrens has become a mandate to jail the parents?
The crime that she committed in the first place occured while she was a minor (16 yo). Part of the “rehabilitation” was for her to get her GED and her father, as the guardian of the juvie, was supposed to make sure she did whatever needed to be done to get the GED. He went derelict in his duty by letting her live w/ her mom and now he’s in the pokey himself.
Methink the teacher shall go to jail, why the father? Did the judge give him power to forcibly restrain the kid?
Methink the teacher shall go to jail, why the father? Did the judge give him power to forcibly restrain the kid?
Lesson Learned:
Don’t name your daughter “Brittany.”
The name alone eliminates 20 points of potential IQ.
Nice Job Brittany.
Perhaps you should do your homework at a desk in your room and not at the coffee table in front of the TV.
You would prefer "Brain Scientist"?
The judge ordered him to get her to school and get her to finish her GED because she was a truant. She/they didn't. She turned 18.
She/they doubtless thought "she's 18 now, whatchagonna do?
They didn't follow his order before she turned 18. They pay the price.
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"I'm about to be 19 and my Dad's being punished for something I did when I was 16," she said.
No where in the law do you get to ignore the judge's order by running out the clock.
See: "A judge ordered the father to stay on top of his daughter's education months ago and when that order wasn't followed, Brian Gegner was sentenced to 180-days in the Butler County jail."
From: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=28d2acca-9947-44cc-8831-9859f1f6137e
so she can’t pass the math portion of her ged test...that is a crime...some people have problems in math...God knows i did despite how much i studied....how many out there in freeper land have seen the math portion of a ged test....??...its not as easy as 1 + 1 = 2 or 10/2 = 5
and for this we are now putting people in jail....jail is meant for people that commit crimes against society, not for people or parents of people that can not pass a math test.......
People on FR rightly criticize inner city biological fathers all the time for abandoning their children, not raising them right, allowing their kids to grow up to be anti-social clowns.
This girl is 18. She has an 18 month old. She was pregnant at 16 at most, maybe 15.
She was an effective dropout and having a bastard child when she was his legal responsibility - not to mention his moral responsibility.
As a father, that is an epic fail.
Is his punishment appropriate? That's a matter of debate. But it cannot be debated that he ****ed up.
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