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| Ohio woman refuses to put her children in crumbling schools. She goes to jail because of it. |
As the 45th/47th President of the United States is given the greenlight to dismantle the Department of Education by the Supreme Court, the Republicans in Ohio are making more stupid draconian laws that punish the poor and empower the elite.
They did gerrymandering to maintain power.
They passed laws to strip women's rights, cut funding to the safety net, pushed mandatory work requirements to get unemployment, stripped rights from transgender Americans, mandated that LGBTQ and queer history is removed from schools, ended free school lunches, ending summer food program, enforcing more distracted driver laws, pushing for more regulation on voter approved marijuana laws, banned critical race theory in schools, pushing for Christian nationalism in public schools, more non union schools (known as charter schools), making firearm ownership easier and punishing thieves and shoplifters with longer punishments.
Truancy is another thing that Ohio is pushing.
Diamond Street is a struggling mother in Canton, Ohio. She has three children.
According to the Stark County Prosecutor’s Office, Diamond Street was sentenced for chronic truancy.
Prosecuting Attorney Kyle Stone says Diamond’s 13-year-old missed 200 hours of class, about a month’s worth of school.
Her 7-year-old and 6-year-old each missed 112 hours.
The absences were reported by an attendance officer with the Canton School District.
After several failed attempts to contact Diamond and assist her, the prosecutor’s office was called.
“We have a specific prosecutor assigned that all she does is handle truancy,” said Stone. “Even so, our family court is still willing to work with parents; however, if they are unwilling to put in the effort or attend necessary meetings, the situation may end up like this case.”
Stone says truancy is something they take extremely seriously in Stark County, and this is one of the more extreme cases he has seen.
“We just want parents to send their kids to school. This is not a you-as-a-parent problem; this is a community problem because if kids are not in school, they are in trouble, and kids being in trouble is something that affects all of us,” says Stone.
19 News asked Stone who is watching Diamond’s kids while she is in Stark County Jail. He told us that another family member is watching after them.
The Department of Education is ran by Linda McMahon, the former Small Business Administration advisor. She is the estranged wife of sexual predator Vince McMahon. He is the the chairman WWE Entertainment and co executive of TKO Entertainment Holdings.
McMahon is pretty clueless as an Education Secretary. She has already released over a thousand workers at the DOE. It is a real shitshow.
Even Street stated that there were reasons to have children in school. To worry about gun violence, sanitized American history, police presence in the hallways, bullying and sexual predator teachers would make me consider not having children in school.
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