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Texas honor student jailed for missing too much school
CBS Atlanta ^ | May 25, 2012 | Amanda Merrell

Posted on 05/26/2012 7:52:24 AM PDT by christx30

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TX (CBS ATLANTA) -

An honor student in Texas was thrown in jail after she missed too many classes at her high school.

A judge issued Diane Tran, 17, a summons Wednesday for her excessive truancy after she missed class. She was arrested in open court.

Last month, Tran was issued a warning by the judge for missing school.

Tran said she works both full-time and part-time jobs, in addition to taking advanced and college level courses.

But the judge said Tran's case was bigger than the individual situation of one student.

"If you let one run loose, what are you gonna' do with the rest of 'em?," said Judge Lanny Moriarty. "Let them go too? A little stay in the jail for one night is not a death sentence."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsatlanta.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: arth; dianetran; education; lannymoriarty; publicschools; schools; texas; zerotolerance
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To: christx30

Public schools can’t afford to let brilliant students miss a lot of worthless class days because the state pays them for each warm body in a seat.


81 posted on 05/26/2012 9:34:22 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: christx30

I only went three weeks into my sophomore year, never saw junior or senior, started my own business and was making very good wages in collecting scarp metals.

Sometimes the school system fails completely.


82 posted on 05/26/2012 9:34:26 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (Liberals need not reply.)
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To: christx30
Diane Tran is exemplary of everything the socialist state despises. The example the judge is setting is that we don't care how hard you work, how ambitious you are, how smart you are and how responsible you are. You should have gone on welfare. You should have applied for food stamps. You should have surrendered yourself to the custody of some state bureaucrat. There is no excuse for breaking the law, none whatsoever. If the law says jump, it is not up to you to refuse but only to ask how high. Either conform, or else!

This is infuriating.

83 posted on 05/26/2012 9:36:55 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: christx30

She’s 17! I thought you could quit school at 16.


84 posted on 05/26/2012 9:41:57 AM PDT by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
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To: christx30

How very liberal.

Symbolism over substance.

And, of course, the Cretin-in-Chief is the ultimate example of all symbol and absolutely, positively NO substance.


85 posted on 05/26/2012 9:49:45 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Terry Mross

This obviously intelligent, hard-working young woman probably is cemented into being a conservative and has a positive future. The moronic idiot of a judge should be removed from the bench. What a clymer. Idiots are everywhere...even on the bench in Texas.


86 posted on 05/26/2012 9:50:02 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: freedumb2003

Hmmm, I think “series” should be “serious” - just saying.


87 posted on 05/26/2012 9:52:26 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: vette6387

“Willis, TX sounds like the armpit of the country.”

As a fifth generation Texan, I can tell you that Willis is but one of many “armpits” in Texas, where little men with a little authority feel like big shots. The worst thing in the world for these tin-horned despots is to have the bright light of ridicule and negative publicity shine on their outrageous misuse of their position. Keep those phone calls and FAXes flowing....and it wouldn’t hurt to send them to the idiot administration of the Willis ISD as well. Someone among the teaching staff should have known about the incredible feat of courage and achievement of this exemplary student and spoken in her defense.


88 posted on 05/26/2012 9:52:40 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SkyDancer

>>Hmmm, I think “series” should be “serious” - just saying.<<

“hugh and series” and “loose” are old FR memes.


89 posted on 05/26/2012 9:54:07 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: EEGator

According to Sasha Cohen she’s the hairy one, right?


90 posted on 05/26/2012 9:55:18 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: Shimmer1
Warehousing of our children. Treat ‘em all the same, yeah.

Yes. Just another example of the lunacy of Egalitarian/Collectivism (Communism & Socialism), that always Sabotages Human Potential. To paraphrase a wise man: Free people are never equal, and equal people are never free.

William Flax

91 posted on 05/26/2012 9:55:18 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: christx30

Judge Lanny Moriarty is a ‘Justice of the Peace’, for crying out loud. What an evil POS...has his Prick stuck up his nose.

Perhaps it is time we did away with the Justice of the Peace position. And perhaps it is time for this dick head to spend about 12 months in the slammer with a big bad Bubba for a cell mate.


92 posted on 05/26/2012 9:57:12 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea
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To: deport

I ask because schools and educators insist that they care about kiddies. I am curious if anyone in the school took so much as a minute out of their day to learn about her background. Mayhap they were too busy coddling gangbangers to notice or care.


93 posted on 05/26/2012 9:57:53 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SkyDancer

Haha, yeah. Craig Ferguson as well.


94 posted on 05/26/2012 9:58:14 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator
I don’t know how to do italics.

I don’t know how to do italics.

3 schools

Practice:

Try It Yourself

On the "try it yourself" just type anything you like between the HTML tags in a line and hit "edit and click me".

95 posted on 05/26/2012 9:59:04 AM PDT by bigheadfred (MY PET TAPEWORM OBIWAN IS AN INSANE MILITARY HATING LEFTIST)
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To: vette6387

Willis, TX sounds like the armpit of the country

Fact is Willis is growing by leaps & bounds.

Fact, also, he’ll win re-elction when he runs easily.


96 posted on 05/26/2012 9:59:04 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: txrefugee

Exactly. She could have been asleep at her desk and the district would not care so long as she was present during the class roll call.


97 posted on 05/26/2012 9:59:51 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: bigheadfred

Thank you.


98 posted on 05/26/2012 10:00:47 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: christx30

I have read a few comments by liberals on other web sites. They are mostly sympathetic with most saying instead of punishing the girl, the judge should have tried to help her. She is trying to help herself. Liberals are so wired into thinking one way they couldn’t even get that fact in their heads.


99 posted on 05/26/2012 10:02:14 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Truth29

Was she charged as a minor or as an adult? Will she be made to put this arrest record in all her college applications, scholarship applications and job applications for the rest of her life?

I’ve yet to meet a judge who I’d trust with my dog’s life much less my child’s.


100 posted on 05/26/2012 10:03:10 AM PDT by bgill
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