Sunday, July 15, 2012

Because We Care About You... and school sucks


Well I'm back again, I didn't intend to take this long to write again, but due to technological troubles, I was offline for awhile thus making it impossible to post more entries. This is not ideal because my lead in story in this post is now somewhat older news. Anyhow, what I hope to do in this entry is combine several possible posts that I have been planning to do in the past so hopefully despite my lack on consistency in writing here, I will partially make it up by killing several birds with one stone so to speak. 

Okay, I want to start this post with a story I originally came across on attackthesystem.com   about an incident in Montgomery County in the grand old State of Texas where a 17 year old high school student by the name of Diane Tran was sentenced to a day in jail and a fine for contempt of court (I believe) because of missing too many days of school. This despite the fact that the student in question was working two jobs to support her siblings because of her parents splitting up and despite missing some classes over being extremely tired from that out of school work (who wouldn't be) she apparently managed to make the honour roll. Anyhow this story became viral and spread around the world prompting outrage and leading to some donation campaign set up specifically for Tran with a website set up for that purpose. Anyhow, what eventually happened was that the charges were dropped with Mr. Judge Moriarty backing down from his hard line stance to some extent that he took earlier. Anyways, if you are curious about this story, there are more articles here   and probably even more if you care to search for them on the net. Now when I came across this story, I was immediately interested because I had read some articles about a county in Texas with a Judge who was well known for incarcerating students who were chronic truants from school and I had planned to write a blog post about two articles about this 12.