If Your Sick Child Misses School You Should Be In Jail

Picture for a moment a terminally ill mom with cancer and other health issues. Now add a disabled child with some debilitating health issues of his own that has kept him out of school. Finally, picture them having very little money. This is a tough situation folks. Right?

So what does the school district do? They fine mom for his absences. (See, they lose budget money for him if he is gone a lot.) And the fines total several thousand dollars AND she could go to jail if she doesn't pay! You can read the story here. So, mom could go to jail for having a very sick child because the school does not want to be deprived of its funds.

Let me start with this . . .

Where in the hell does the government have any right to FINE a person for not exercising their personal rights? Yes, I know that school is a legal obligation. But school absences due to illness are NOT a failure to comply with the law. What authority does the district have to deprive others of property or even to make such policies in the first place? School officials are not elected law makers!

So now we have a situation where non-representatives can enact their own laws depriving citizens of property for actions that are perfectly within their RIGHTS and if they are poor enough that they cannot pay they can be thrown jail.

Have a sick child and go to jail.

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What do you think?

Honey, Which Gang Should Our Baby Join?

I've heard about parents fighting over which school their children should attend. Ditto for church, day care, and extracurricular activities. But here is another issue that makes me scratch my head . . .

Patrons at a Hollywood Video store witnessed a man tearing up the area around the checkout counter as he argued with the teen mother of his child. They were members of different gangs - she was with the Crips and he was with the West Side Ballers. They were arguing over which GANG their 4 year old child would join when old enough to do so!!! Read the story here.

Now I'm not one who generally prefers to get DHS or the court system involved in people's lives, but this is ridiculous. The phrase "detrimental to the well being of the child" keeps coming to mind as possibly neither of them is fit to be a parent.

What do you think?