Danielle has written a nice article in the Janesville Gazette explaining that because the Evansville city ordinance on truancy required that school officials meet with parents prior to issuing citations, all of the charges had to be dismissed by City Attorney Mark Kopp.
A new ordinance that would be less restrictive and agree with state law, is scheduled for a public hearing on Wednesday, Aug 3. Click on the post for the entire article.
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I think these tickets were wrong to begin with. By the time students reach high school they should be developing there own beliefs and values, and as long as they are not hurting anyone be allowed to follow through with their beliefs. In this situation the school acted as though they were a jail instead of learning institution. Maybe if the school had handled things better the whole situation might have been avoided. The school quite often over steps the line between what is o.k. and what is not. The staff at school expects respect from the students, and they should but they also need to give it and they don't always. I will close with saying I don't with chronic truancy, either your in school or your not, but in this case the school was wrong.
ReplyDeleteI think the joke is on the school. Besides this case, of the tickets that are handed out for truancy, bad lanuage, do you know how many are actually tossed out? Quite a few. One has to wonder if the Judge A. does not get sick and tired of the school's whining. He is a very fair, reasonable person, to bad we don't see more of that from our school officials. Thats not to say if he sees the same kid
ReplyDeletein his court room time and time again he does not step on them, he should., But he is interested in having these kids better them selves, Unlike the school who only likes to use the police to make a point. In turn the school officials get no respect, nor do they deserve it.