Homeless woman arrested for theft, for enrolling child in school

[Elta]

I've heard of some messed up stuff before, but >.< this is up there.

 

[Yeekim]

I've heard of some messed up stuff before, but >.< this is up there.

This.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Wouldnt it be better for the kid to be in school rather than on the streets anyways?

Also, that price seems real big. Are they providing Apple laptops to every kid free of charge or something?

 

[Ayatollah So]

Perhaps letting them enrol at the parent's last known address.

Heck, let them enroll at any school in the state (of their last known address). And if any family wants to "take advantage" of this policy by sleeping regularly in homeless shelters, in order to go to a district they perceive as all that much better, then by all means let them.

It is clearly better for him to be at school, any school, than homeless and uneducated. If the boy's mother hadn't sent him to school, no doubt the police would be arresting her for non-compliance with state education laws instead.

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[Bestbank Tiger]

Yeah, strictly an American thing and as DT said, I'm from Ohio.

The city of Ottawa is nearly as big as Rhode Island. All the local communities that once existed are covered by the same school board now.

Ah, OK. I was going by your current location.

 

[woody60707]

http://www.thehour.com/story/503516 Update on the news story.

School officials said they neither ejected a 5-year-old boy from this district nor demanded his embattled mother pay tuition for allegedly stealing a Norwalk education.

McDowell removed her son by choice after the baby-sitter was evicted. He said that social workers from the school had not spoken with McDowell.

"The Norwalk Public Schools fully complies with the McKinney-Vento Act, which requires public schools to provide education for homeless students," the release stated.

Well this is odd. There is either a lot more going on here, or WTH police, she isn't breaking the law.

 

[CaptainF]

Eat the poor! Nomnomnomnomnom

 

[GoodGame]

The core of this story is enrolling your kid in a district in which you don't live, and that's fraud. Clearly there needs to be mechanisms to establish residency for homeless persons' children. Perhaps letting them enrol at the parent's last known address.

I think this is about right, but probably it ends up being a NIMBY issue which seems to be what happened. When does the state try to take possession of the kid and actually provide him with some kind of future though? Or is home-schooling the default according to the law?


I guess that requires some research.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1884822,00.html

 

[Narz]

How the hell are they gonna get $15K out of a homeless woman?

Anyway, where's her boy going to school in the meantime?

 

[GoodGame]

How the hell are they gonna get $15K out of a homeless woman?

Anyway, where's her boy going to school in the meantime?

Exactly. The system seems to be endorsing home-schooling.

 

[amadeus]

If the woman is homeless, why does she still have custody of the kid?

 

[innonimatu]

How the hell are they gonna get $15K out of a homeless woman?

Sell her as a slave!
Hey, it's the only fitting end for this story.

 

[Abegweit]

How the hell are they gonna get $15K out of a homeless woman?

Well, she does own a van...

 

[Narz]

If the woman is homeless, why does she still have custody of the kid?

So people who lose their homes should immediately have their children seized also?

 

[CaptainF]

So people who lose their homes should immediately have their children seized also?

nomz nomz nomz poarz r delishus!!!!

 

[GoodSarmatian]

So people who lose their homes should immediately have their children seized also?

Actually...yes.
Better than having the kid grow up in the streets.

Edit: To make it clear, I'm not advocating that the child gets eaten.

 

[Narz]

Homeless people don't always live in the streets, I'd suspect most of them crash on couches & floors at friend's or family member's houses.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I've heard of some messed up stuff before, but >.< this is up there.

It is another excellent example of "law and order" trumping justice, fairness, and basic common sense.