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They should have converted to Islam. She should have worn a burqa in court.
Her kids would have gotten lifetime scholarships and the prosecutor would have been slapped down with a charge of harassment.
>>While her two girls were registered as living at an address with her father on Black Pond Drive in Copley Township within the school district, prosecutors said the children actually were living in Akron with their mother on Hartford Avenue in subsidized housing provided by the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority.<<
So what does the dad get for his property taxes?
This system sucks.
I agree with the verdict. Stealing an education at a public school outside your district is . . . stealing. The district taxpayers support the schools, and the price of running a school goes up when more teachers are needed. There is no legal or moral difference between stealing the tuition of $800 per month per child for two children over the course of three years and stealing items of the same value from a store. If the kids were in fact living with the mother out of district and not with the grandfather, then the sentence was too lenient.
BTW, the correct answer is to fix the public schools nationwide; they need to focus on education and not on indoctrination. However that is in the long term. In the short term, if you want your kids to go to a particular school, you either move there or pay tuition - but do it legally.
So, we send parents who actually care about their kid’s education when, depressingly, so many don’t. And we’ll spend even more money to try them? And more money to incarcerate them?
There are real problems to be solved, and this ain’t one of them. The kid would be educated at taxpayer expense no matter which public school they attended.
Sorta introduces competition to the school place, the good schools get more ‘customers’ and the crummy schools get fewer.
We should take that further by vouchers, but if this is a step on the way there, I’m OK with it.
I hope that while the mom is in jail, she turns over custody of her girls to her dad.
Then they go to Copley schools anyway!!!!!
The only time this has been a problem in my area was when a high school football coach recruited a top player from another county, hired his dad as a janitor and created a bogus address for their residence.
Cool, a legal precedent.
I guess this means that Mexico and/or the illegal aliens owe us A LOT of money!
The “No Child Left Behind” Law includes a part where a student that attends a failing school (as defined by testing), can petition to attend another school in the district. Bush wanted to implement school choice, but settled for this. Unfortunately, no one seems aware of his rights under this law.