Honor Student Jailed For Missing School

This really struck home. I'm in a situation VERY similar to hers, and sometimes it truly does burn me out to the point where I can't even get up and walk to the bathroom without falling asleep on the floor. In what alternate universe can I function in school when I fall asleep while going to the bathroom? And why can't I live there instead of this one?

A competent school district would understand how hard it is for students like Diane and myself to live in two different worlds - the world of a typical high school student and the world of an adult struggling to keep a whole family alive. Where is the compassion in this cold, cruel world?

TT.TT

Sometimes strict rules make no sense and this judge is not making a good point by jailing and fining her. She is an Honor student who is working AND taking AP classes? Not the one to use to make a point about not being late or missing school.

There is more about this from KHOU. After he was told about her situation, this was his response:
"Judge Moriarty is off on Fridays so he has not made a decision as to whether he will throw the case out. "I hadn’t thought on that issue because it turns me, ‘Well, he’s soft. He’s not gonna do nothing.’ I’m taking off at 11:30 today," said the judge."

SOFT? He doesn't need to soft, just compassionate.

That discription is sarcasm right? Lol

On this site, you can never be sure, can you? :)

Don

if that's not a hard working student, i dont know what is. she DESERVES to have time off from school. truancy my ass......its called trying no to go mentally insane.

Zero tolerance can turn into idiocy so profound that the entire purpose of the educational system is forgotten to such an extent that it can ruin lives.



If any nearly-adult child had the rarer exception based on hardship circumstances, this one did. But now she's been ****jailed,*** something that will exclude her from a lot of employment in a lot of places not just in the immediate future but perhaps for life.



The very same people who dismiss this one as a cry baby are the same ones who dismiss all people in need as (brainless, unobservant meme alert!) "bums" or those "just looking for a handout," rather than extend a helping hand to those who are demonstrable trying or change at least part the school system.



For example, in some places, alternative classroom settings such as Accelerated Independent Study programs count on criteria for inclusion and curriculum that must be met but the program is somewhat flexible in regards to starting time (students can opt for later starting times but still have to put in a certain number of hours). Some of these programs have had great success.



There are many, many alternatives to denigrating, dismissing and jailing people, all of the latter which can cause more problems than they solve.

Just because someone is put in jail does not mean it will affect their lives.

But it could

Do the words expunged, sealed, and wiped mean anything to you? Unless she was convicted this won't affect anything.

It definitely could, but this particular girl shouldn't get a long-term record from this particular incident. Courts have special "holding cells" to temporarily keep people, and I'm sure she would have been kept there rather than sent to a prison or anything like that.

Don

I know that. TT.TT

I'm sure she won't get any sort of record for this.
She is under 18, and I would expect it to be a civil court matter (such as divorce) rather than a criminal court matter (such as felonies).

Don

If she's working two jobs and such, she's not lazy. She's over-worked. If she's still making the grades, why should she be jailed? Truancy is usually involved in the case that students can't make the grade but this HONOR student can still do well while missing school. It's bullsh*t that that she's gone to jail, especially since it's not going to effect her. Great job, court system...jk you suck :)

This girl is nothing short of a hero.

She has managed to remain an advanced honor student while working to support her siblings, as well as herself.

Which, by the way, is a lot more than her worthless parents seem to be able to do.

Her parents should be taken to court for abandonment, and she should be applauded for the love and devotion that she has shown for her brothers and sisters.

Many would have been tempted to walk away from this kind of situation long before now.......

A HOMELESS-HIGH-SCHOOL-GRADUATE'S STORY!

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/sto...

What a wonderful young man. It looks like quite a few of us could learn a thing or two from the youth of this generation. Such potential!! :)

Are you being sarcastic or are you seriously being an ass?

i wish i could rave this more than once

ha thanks :)

On this site, you can never be certain, can you? :)

Don

Nope :)

That is WRONG on SO MANY levels. Don't YOU ever get tired, CREW grand? Or are you just HEARTLESS?

Those sound like the words of a pinko commie liberal with no respect for law and order.
Rules are meant to be followed, not broken, you know. :)

Don

flagged

What's flagged, that reply to your comment?
It isn't bullying because I didn't directly call you a pinko commie liberal.
It is hateful, but it isn't generalizing, such as calling all liberals "pinko commies."
It's merely hypothetical and indirect, leaving open the possibility that there are only two pinko commie liberals in the world, and the words you wrote happen to sound like something that one of them would say.
Yes, dear, it's a matter of semantics, but semantics are important, so I recommend saving flags for postings that truly deserve them.
Otherwise, they might start ignoring your flags because they think you're a nuisance for flagging frivolously. :)

Don

Fine... you just keep drinkin' the Conny Kool-aid

It's truly cruel for you to expect anybody in a situation like Diane's and mine to not miss school. Try living in our lives and YOU would be begging for the chance to rest and take a well-deserved break. Until then, stay out of things you know absolutely nothing about.

put in jail for missing school that gives me an idea maybe we should start putting people in jail for missing work,I wonder how many of our politicans miss work?As for the girl that was just to harsh and never should of happened.

DEAR CREW GRAND & FRIENDS,

AS an Ex-Social-Worker, I had worked THROUGH these SITUATIONS at County,

State and Federal levels with VIETNAMESE like TRAN & HER SIBLINGS.

SO, WHY DOES SHE HAVE to SUPPORT HER OLDER-BROTHER-a Texas A&M;

University-STUDENT? CAN HE HELP himself w/Basic Grant, Work Study et al.? HE,

I'm sure DOES TAKE ALL THAT to HIS ADVANTAGE! this excerpt from kvue.com

[..]Tran said she is working so hard because she is helping to support an older brother

who attends Texas A&M; University [...] and a baby sister who lives with relatives in

Houston. Tran said her parents divorced “out of the blue” and both moved away,

leaving her in Willis. Her mother lives in Georgia, she said.

You know that some Vietnamese families still give the males all the advantages. I have seen Vietnamese girls even forced into prostitution by their families to help support a male sibling in university. They don't consider it a negative thing, but they actually think she is doing something honorable by helping him.
I'm certain you've seen cases like that, right?

Don

The guy must be an IDIOT

If she were raised in traditional Vietnamese culture, she may have been made to think it was her responsibility to put males of the family first, so it would be her duty to accept any suffering she might undergo in order to help him.
The law can't do much to govern familial ideals that aren't proven to be physically harmful.
What the law can and should do is track down either or both of her parents who are still in the US and make them financially responsible for the care of any of their children who haven't turned 18 yet.

Don

I agree with you on the last part. It is COMPLETELY unfair to expect a minor to support an entire family and go to school at the same time. And just so you know, constant stress has a proven link to illness and a reduced immune system. Common sense dictates that a bad immune system makes people catch more severe illnesses more often, which could lead to death.

Is there justice left in this world? Apparently not

I don't know how anyone could say that this young woman is a lazy liberal kid or a slacker or any other derogatory name. She has been put in an unbelievably bad situation by negligent parents and now, instead of helping her, the court system throws her in jail. What a country!?? Oh wait, it's Texas. Now I understand.

Well, it's Houston, specifically. The place is run by liberals, from what I hear.

Well, something is very wrong when something like this can happen to a good kid who's trying her best to keep things together for her family. She needs help not jail.

Cannot believe this tbh. At a loss for words right now.

It's hard to keep the profanity filter off on this one.
i bet that judge only works one job, when he shows up.