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Originally Posted by Lamplighter
TV news this morning showe an Ohio mother sent to jail because she enrolled her child in the wrong school.
Of course, the Mom being Black and the school being better
than her assigned "neighborhood school" had nothing to do with it
A one-off event ? We are beyond racial bigotry ?
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Here is a link to that event of the Ohio Mom being convicted of a felony
after sending her daughters to a better school that was not her assigned neighborhood school.
She has been sentenced to community service, but will not
be allowed to perform a service to the community in the future.
This qualifies for a "cut off your nose..." judgment.
Time
Ohio Mom Jailed for Sending Her Kids to a Better*School
By: Madison Gray
Williams-Bolar, 40, and her two children live in housing projects in Akron, Ohio.
For two years, she sent them to school in the Copley-Fairlawn district,
where her father lived, because it was a safer environment --
the high crime rate in her area drove her decision.
The suburban school district hired a private investigator to find their residential records
and it turned out she listed the children as living in that district, although they actually stayed with her.
Technically, that qualifies as a felony since she falsified records,
and Judge Patricia Cosgrove sentenced her to two concurrent five-year prison sentences.
She suspended the sentence, though, in favor of a 10-day jail sentence,
80 hours of community service and three years probation.
She had been working as a teaching assistant for special needs children
and earning a teaching degree, but since she is now a convicted felon,
under Ohio law she cannot earn that degree.
Both girls, now aged 16 and 12, attended schools in Copley-Fairlawn
from August 2006 to June 2008, but now attend school elsewhere,
according to the Akron Beacon-Journal.