School sends poor students home.

[SamIam]

I doubt if that news story is actually what happened. I don't know how big that school is, but I bet more than 10 kids had library fines of one sort or an another. Why send home only 10 of them? They would ALL have had to go home or call Mom and Dad for the money.

At my high school if you had fines or you lost a book, your library privileges would be taken away until you cleared the matter up.

As a matter of fact, in grade school, if we turned out text books in at the end of the year with too much damage, we had to pay for them. So everybody made these funky covers for their books out of brown paper bags.

I agree the kids should be taught responsibility. Let 'em do some work around the school to make up the fine if they can't pay it.