No, I don't think she's justified in doing this. Yes, she has a responsibility to provide for her children, but so does everyone else. What makes her children in particular so special that she should be able to send them to a better school while everyone else simply has to send theirs to their local school? My mother is a teacher and one of the things that really gets up her nose is the endless wave of parents demanding special treatment for their kids- every parent who does this is inconveniencing another parent and child, often one who actually NEEDS special treatment. So while I think jail is a bit over-the-top, I really have precious little sympathy with her reasoning.
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Um. If the child is able to have a ride to the school, should it really matter where the child is from?
Of course, the one time somebody tries to screw the system to do something GOOD they get the book thrown at them.
My mom works as a secretary at an elementary school. There was once a mother whose two children were on reduced lunches (in other words, they pay much less for lunches). It is to help alleviate the cost for low-income families.
Get this: the woman drove a Hummer. She ran a beauty school in town. She had money to burn. However, she was separated from her husband, who had a very low paying job. So when filling out the paperwork whenever she registered her children, she would put his income down, not hers. So she got to enjoy the benefit of reduced lunches while she picked up her kids in her Hummer and driving them around town, advertising her successful school with all of the custom stickers and decals it was decked out with. Aren't people just wonderful creatures?
My mom works as a secretary at an elementary school. There was once a mother whose two children were on reduced lunches (in other words, they pay much less for lunches). It is to help alleviate the cost for low-income families.
Get this: the woman drove a Hummer. She ran a beauty school in town. She had money to burn. However, she was separated from her husband, who had a very low paying job. So when filling out the paperwork whenever she registered her children, she would put his income down, not hers. So she got to enjoy the benefit of reduced lunches while she picked up her kids in her Hummer and driving them around town, advertising her successful school with all of the custom stickers and decals it was decked out with. Aren't people just wonderful creatures?
Why couldn't she just have them go into another school legally? Does the U.S really, uh, how to put this non-offensively, suck that much? You can't have children go to any OTHER school? Just the one you live closest to?
Being an Ohio resident, I actually went through public, private, and home schooling, at various times through my elementary and high school levels, and I assure you, the public schools were by far the worst.
I went to a school which will remain nameless, that was, Statewide, in the 96th percentile, so it was a pretty damn good school. But when I asked to be allowed to graduate early so I could go on tour with a band professionally, my guidance councilor said, and I quote "I don't give a damn about what you want. You're not graduating early." Congratulations on killing a dream.
This was also after I was held back a year because through my two years of homeschooling I had worked my ass off and gotten a year ahead. They said it would be better if I repeated a grade to be with people exactly the same age, and not one whole year older than me, because it would make such a huge difference. I fail to see the logic in stunting a child's educational growth because they would be with other students upwards of 365 days older.
Also, I had to throw a total ***** fit for them to give me my diploma with honors, because I deserved it, but they didn't want to give it to me, because the vice principal knew my father, and held a grudge for thirty years. It's petty and pathetic, but it's the cold truth.
And this is one of the top 5% schools in the state. I don't blame her for trying to get out of something worse than that.
Sorry for a rant, but there has to be a better system. Ever since the public schooling system has been in effect, literacy rates have dropped, and we have gone from turning out some of the best and brightest, to falling hard. Problem is, legislators don't try and fix the problem, they just shovel money at it and double down.
I went to a school which will remain nameless, that was, Statewide, in the 96th percentile, so it was a pretty damn good school. But when I asked to be allowed to graduate early so I could go on tour with a band professionally, my guidance councilor said, and I quote "I don't give a damn about what you want. You're not graduating early." Congratulations on killing a dream.
This was also after I was held back a year because through my two years of homeschooling I had worked my ass off and gotten a year ahead. They said it would be better if I repeated a grade to be with people exactly the same age, and not one whole year older than me, because it would make such a huge difference. I fail to see the logic in stunting a child's educational growth because they would be with other students upwards of 365 days older.
Also, I had to throw a total ***** fit for them to give me my diploma with honors, because I deserved it, but they didn't want to give it to me, because the vice principal knew my father, and held a grudge for thirty years. It's petty and pathetic, but it's the cold truth.
And this is one of the top 5% schools in the state. I don't blame her for trying to get out of something worse than that.
Sorry for a rant, but there has to be a better system. Ever since the public schooling system has been in effect, literacy rates have dropped, and we have gone from turning out some of the best and brightest, to falling hard. Problem is, legislators don't try and fix the problem, they just shovel money at it and double down.
She broke the law. It sucks, but it is a law nonetheless. Laws are put in place for a reason. If you don't agree with the law, there are avenues availiable to try and have it changed. She had options. She knew the risks when she made her decision to commit a felony. She got caught. Thats life...
Basically this (take of that what you will).The only problem I have is the fact that she and her ex falsified various documents. That is a no-no no matter what the situation is.LegendaryGamer0 said:
Justified? Yea, probably. Should she be punished? Absolutely. Whether or not a law is right or wrong does not dictate whether it should be followed or not. There are many laws I do not agree with but if I break one of them and get caught, I expect to be punished. It may lead to me trying to change the law in the future but that does not excuse past crimes.
Even if it includes national security.RedEyesBlackGamer said:
Wait, why am I saying this?
OT: I am reminded of a certain Lifetime movie of which at the end the mother says "A mother's got to do what a mother's got to do".
It won several awards if I remember correctly.
I dont think she is, since she is paying less for her child to go to a better school. She could have always done the right thing, and transferred her child to the school, through legal means.
She isn't morally in the right. What she did is the equivalent of theft, and theft is wrong. Besides that, her logic is flawed in the first place. Better school does not equal better education, see that 1 billion dollar project in Kansas City that failed utterly if you need proof.
I went to a crappy public school and I did just fine, why? Because I WANTED TO LEARN. If she really cared about her kid's education then she'd encourage them to do the same. No amount of money will raise a child's test scores, this has been proven without a fact. Urban schools spend boatloads more cash per student than rural schools, and do far worse.
I went to a crappy public school and I did just fine, why? Because I WANTED TO LEARN. If she really cared about her kid's education then she'd encourage them to do the same. No amount of money will raise a child's test scores, this has been proven without a fact. Urban schools spend boatloads more cash per student than rural schools, and do far worse.