Posted on 05/06/2011 2:07:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
At least 26 Connecticut students were kicked out of their Norwalk public school for illegally enrolling by using a phony home address, a district spokesman told FoxNews.com. But none of the parents involved will face legal charges, even though a homeless Norwalk mother was criminally charged last month for the same offense, according to the official.
Bruce Morris, Human Relations Officer with Norwalk Public Schools, said Friday that the students were forced to withdraw from their public school after it was found they were not legal residents of the city.
“We determined that 26 of them, per residency requirements, were not eligible to remain in those schools,” Morris said in an interview. “Our standard process is that when those things happen, we disenroll the student.”
Morris noted that the families involved will not be criminally prosecuted because the school handles such investigations internally and does not report them to the police.
But that decision has outraged civil rights advocates.
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How about we just expel the students and at worst right the parents a nominal civil ticket - like a parking ticket? I'm sure the police and the DA have plenty of real crimes to investigate in prosecute in NORWALK, CT.
right = write. Good Lord. I wish we could edit posts after-the-fact.
Background please - who is doing this and why.
In Georgia, this is a felony. 4 counties that I know of file felony criminal charges.
Should have just claimed to be illegals. Then they would have been untouchable.
That’s one way to look at it. As long as you don’t live and pay thousands of dollars in Norwalk school taxes just so some out of town freeloaders can get a free ride on your dime.
But if I lived in Norwalk - yeah. I would consider the theft of services a crime.
But we mustn’t ask for photo ID to prove voting rights, oh no. /s
Background please - who is doing this and why.
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What??? I know the linkie button works for me. But there are also two more links in post 1. Sorry, they don’t look like links, but they’re there.
We can expel students for having falso addresses, but not presidents?
2 of the 3 links are about a prior story about a homeless woman. - surely this isnt about 26 more - a brief synopsis would be nice instead of just listing links :) - It is a local issue not one known to the nation
You've already accepted that it's ok for some people to remove your money at gunpoint (school taxes). So what do a few more freeloaders matter?
How about we get government out of education? That sound like a plan?
/johnny
When a school district is spending upwards of $10K/student paid by taxpayers within their jurisdiction, a ‘traffic ticket’ doesn’t seem appropriate compensation. So far in this one school district alone they’ve identified 27 such students. Any way you slice it, that’s a boatload of money.
However, in a case like this, perhaps education vouchers would be in order. As you probably know, DC students who choose to go to a state university in any state (to which state U they are admitted) pay tuition at the in-state rate. I don’t recall the details, but IIRC, the feds, as part of its costs of operating DC, pay the state U the difference it would otherwise collect.
Also, IIRC, this Administration tried to eliminate vouchers for students in K-12, tho I think that was overridden by the Congress. Those were obviously very popular and sought by parents who did care about their kids’ education which they knew would suffer in DCPS.
Isn’t there some principle such as ‘equal treatment under the law’? (it may be ‘equal protection,’ but still)
Remember, No Child Left Behind allows you to pull your child from a failing school to attend another public school at the government’s expense. But, of course the MSM would slit it’s collective wrists before it reported that fact. If these people were aware of their rights, they would be charging the school district to bus their kids to a non failing school.
Lemme guess, Norwalk is turning a blind eye to all the illegals they have enrolled.
“Should have just claimed to be illegals. Then they would have been untouchable.”
Yeppers.
Government school parents are welfare queens. They pay some taxes, but they are heavily subsidized by everyone else. Government schools are a non-means tested income transfer that destroys children, families, communities, our culture, and our country. We have to maintain them because, otherwise, the transfer-payment recipients might have to be responsible for their children’s education, not to mention having to pay for it.
Government school parents: the teachers’ unions, the radical left, the Obamalini Regime, and the Democrat party salute you!
(of course, your children are getting screwed, but taking care of their education would cut into your “personal time” and interfere with your consumption)
Compulsory, socialist-funded, collectivist, and voter mob controlled government schooling was the first whack at the foundations of the family.
Government welfare schooling destroyed the **father’s** responsibility to see that his children were educated.
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