Texan judge gives 17 year old honour student jail time for truancy

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-honor-student-thrown-jail-missing-school-article-1.1085027

holy fuckballs, I cannot believe a judge sends an over tired stressed out ABANDONED BY HER PARENTS high achiever (nonetheless), and supporting her brother at college...

:ragefroth:

[Cain]

Clearly the absolute best thing for this student right now is a criminal record and having to miss even more work and classes due to jail time.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

yea, and it's not as if 24 hours in jail is going to help her stress levels and help her sleep, is it?

[Don Coyote]

This will teach all those immigrant women their place.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

It's Willis. Cain't have them Azns gittin uppity and bein Valley Dick Torn.

"The racial makeup of the city was 61.28% White, 21.15% African American, 0.68% Native American, 0.48% Asian, 14.40% from other races, and 2.01% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 27.23% of the population."

[The Johnny]

A Willis Highschool student is learning a tough lesson about skipping school, but its because shes having a tough time...

"SHES BEING PUNISHED FOR HER OWN GOOD - ITS NOT SO MUCH PUNISHMENT AS IT WILL ALLOW HER TO HAVE FREE TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT!"

[Cain]

A fund is being started for the student in the OP.

http://urkobold.blogspot.com/2012/05/texas-jurisprudence-strikes-again.html for details

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Pretty good indication of how well the system is working.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Maybe they can institute a policy of having bloodhounds hunt down truant students.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Maybe they can institute a policy of having bloodhounds hunt down truant students.

You joke about it now...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You know, it's great. We live in this great country, the land of the Free, a democracy, and we have this document, the Constitution, which protects our rights as citizens. But if you're under 18, it's a whole different story. You are required to attend school; that's compulsory. When you are in school, you and your personal possessions are not protected by the Constitution, and there are behaviors that are not crimes for other categories of citizen. Talking back, chewing gum, or burping may be found to be a crime and result in an arrest record and jail time. Using an inhaler or taking Midol may result in an arrest record and jail time. Being late may result in an arrest record and jail time. Your parents may try to object, but if they do, or if they attempt to withdraw you from this abusive environment, they may face accusations of child neglect. Functionally, until you are 18 you belong not to your parents, but to the State.

Land of the free.

[Don Coyote]

You know, it's great. We live in this great country, the land of the Free, a democracy, and we have this document, the Constitution, which protects our rights as citizens. But if you're under 18, it's a whole different story. You are required to attend school; that's compulsory. When you are in school, you and your personal possessions are not protected by the Constitution, and there are behaviors that are not crimes for other categories of citizen. Talking back, chewing gum, or burping may be found to be a crime and result in an arrest record and jail time. Using an inhaler or taking Midol may result in an arrest record and jail time. Being late may result in an arrest record and jail time. Your parents may try to object, but if they do, or if they attempt to withdraw you from this abusive environment, they may face accusations of child neglect. Functionally, until you are 18 you belong not to your parents, but to the State.

Land of the free.

This bring up the question of whether education should be mandatory eh?

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Maybe they can institute a policy of having bloodhounds hunt down truant students.

You joke about it now...

well, if we can have drug sniffing dogs go after their lockers... it seems legit. 

[Cain]

Funnily enough, the criticisms of existing state education here are strongly approaching that of the anarchist critique of education, which I have a certain amount of sympathy for (though I think their conclusion is pretty weak.  As with Marx, great analysis, not so great solutions).

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Maybe they can institute a policy of having bloodhounds hunt down truant students.

You joke about it now...

well, if we can have drug sniffing dogs go after their lockers... it seems legit. 

When you consider that "truancy" means you can be picked up by the police, regardless of what you are doing, for not being in school, and that truancy is a crime you can be charged with, it's perfectly plausible.