What is missing from this thread?

[USA4ME]

Lots of different viewpoints coming out of this story to me.  Yeah, you feel for her and what she wanted to do for her kids, but she lied and did break the law in order to do it, so no excuse for doing that.  You also have to wonder just how many times she's voted for the very party and people who not only relegated her to where she is for their own political purposes, but created the laws that keep her from sending her kids to a better school.  Will this cause her to wake up to who's really oppressing her and those like her, and why?  Probably not.

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[AllosaursRus]

Lots of different viewpoints coming out of this story to me.  Yeah, you feel for her and what she wanted to do for her kids, but she lied and did break the law in order to do it, so no excuse for doing that.  You also have to wonder just how many times she's voted for the very party and people who not only relegated her to where she is for their own political purposes, but created the laws that keep her from sending her kids to a better school.  Will this cause her to wake up to who's really oppressing her and those like her, and why?  Probably not.

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It is actually like you say. The problem is, because of her masters in the DemoncRat party, what chance has she of gettin' the hell out any more? On the other hand, it looks to me like she found a way for her children to have an escape route. No way can I fault her for that! I know where the blame should be laid, problem is, given that the schools that she more than likely dropped out of, likely didn't educate her on the long term repercussions of DemoncRat hand outs, she's locked into a never ending hell.

I salute her for finally realizing, from either bein' a criminal or a victim, she understands now her life is not the answer and tried her damnedest to give her kids a chance to break the chain!

She needs a damn medal, not 10 days in jail and $30,500 fine!!!!!!!!!! Ya think the criminal justice system ever considered the kids in this money grab?

ETA:

Tell me what options she really had! The system is rigged in these blue controlled hell holes and if ya try to buck the system, this is what happens! Would ya rather she committed armed robbery in order to afford a private school?

[blitzkrieg_17]

Pay it back to whom?

The public school system?

The money was going to the public school system it just went to a different school.

I would hasten to add, any law that traps children in a failing school--particularly on the basis of race--is odious and ought to be ignored. I know the school's student body reflects its immediate neighborhood but it would be naive to claim laws, social programs etc weren't crafted to create impose a soft segregation in the name of the "black community".

To my mind, this woman ought to be the next Rosa Parks if she could get proper reporting on her plight; although her oppressors would more likely be teacher's unions, guilty white liberals and persons of similar melanin content who understand where their checks come from every month.

Agreed about public school, but fraud is fraud and the law in OH on schools is the same as it was when I lived there.

[USA4ME]

Tell me what options she really had! The system is rigged in these blue controlled hell holes and if ya try to buck the system, this is what happens! Would ya rather she committed armed robbery in order to afford a private school?

Again, I sympathize her situation, but she went about it the wrong way.  I feel the same way about someone who steals from a grocery store because their kids are hungry.  I'm sorry their kids are hungry, but stealing is still immoral.  I understand why people from Mexico want to cross the border to get paid better in America, but it's still entering the country illegally.  Let's just hope something good can eventually come out of this, because the solutions of the left will not make it better.

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[DumbAss Tanker]

I don't know about the jail time, but I would all be for the parent(s) to pay back the $30,500

The accounting in the whole thing is somewhat questionable.  While no doubt accountants can make the case for it, it's just logically unappealing to say that it could cost one district 30 grand to provide the kids from another district education, and also cost the district they were supposed to go to another 30 grand ($7,500 X 2 kids X 2 years) for them NOT to go to the school they were supposed to attend, all at the same time. 

[true_blood]

All is forgiven, I gave ya a ^5 to balance it out. We all misread occasionally. Specially me after a few "Johnny's"! heh!
Couldn't get my mind around why a school who didn't have the expense of education is still owed for children that weren't even ****in' there! It is the Projects, however, and they believe they should get a hand out no matter what! Any bets on how much of that money ever makes it to the kids?

Thanks bud.  I read it quickly and jumped the shark, so to speak.
No way should the mother pay, in my opinion.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

A new thread:

Donnachaidh  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-26-11 05:09 PM
Original message
American Apartheid
 http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/allison-kilkenny/33...

Even though American schools were desegregated following Brown v. Board doesn’t mean there isn’t still widespread apartheid cloaked in classicism, though its roots are still racial.

An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live. Kelly Williams-Bolar was sentenced by Judge Patricia Cosgrove on Tuesday and will begin serving her sentence immediately.

The jury deliberated for seven hours and the courtroom was packed as the sentence was handed down. She was convicted on two counts of tampering with court records after registering her two girls as living with Williams Bolar's father when they actually lived with her. The family lived in the housing projects in Akron, Ohio, and the father's address was in nearby Copley Township.

Williams-Bolar is poor, black, and she was attempting to send her children to a better school outside of the district where they live. It’s not as though she resided near a great school, and chose to forgo that option out of some kind of stubbornness or hatred for the law. Quite literally, if she wanted to send her kids to a good school, she had no other options available. It was stay trapped, or escape, and she chose to escape.

More at the link --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x277945

And yet, while the left demands redistribution schemes to lock-in black constituencies and "black studies" programs to reinforce stereotypes of both whites and blacks and investing in the "black community" whatever that means somehow the hands-off/self-reliance philosophy of conservativism will be blamed.

[AllosaursRus]

Donnachaidh  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-26-11 05:09 PM
Original message
American Apartheid
 http://www.smirkingchimp....hread/allison-kilkenny/33...

Even though American schools were desegregated following Brown v. Board doesn’t mean there isn’t still widespread apartheid cloaked in classicism, though its roots are still racial.

Not it's not ya stooooopid DUmb****! Nowadays it's more geographical than anything else!!!!!

Your messiah, the community organizer, ACORN, HUD and the DemoncRat party have segregated the population with free or subsidized housing! Ya go to school in your neighborhood! This woman just got ****ed tryin' to get her kids out of the hell you people created for her!

What the **** did ya think was goin' to happen when you created a welfare dependency voter base, where no one gives a rusty **** about their neighborhood because they don't have to ****in' pay for it????