Tracer Graves

Texas honor student jailed for missing too much school - CBS Atlanta 46
This is just lower than low...

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Melodie Darwin

Making an example out of her also distracts from a system that wasn't helping a 17 year old support a younger sibling. There is no reason the parents should have left them behind to fall through the cracks.

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Joshua Nightshade

What a rotten fucking judge.

I had to drop out of school when I was 17 because I'd moved out from home the year before; after trying for a year and a half to keep up with two jobs, rent and bills along with high school my weight was around 80 lbs and my hair had started literally falling out. I decided it wasn't important to me anymore and eventually got my GED.

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Vaelissa Cortes

Making an example of her? She was helping her family, kudos to her! The only example the judge managed to make is showing everyone what a giant dick he is.

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Darnk Yun

Damn unruley kids with their two job have'n and homework do'n shenaniganary! !

This'll fix their asses!

(this just lets kids know that you're fucked no matter what)

*vandalizes SLU with pictures of weenies and bands that RULEZ! and does various drugs*

Making examples of people is kinda useless and just breeds contempt. And this is a poor choice of person (one of the last people to deserve it) to make an example of.

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Tracer Graves

Judge Lanny Moriarty's Office

(Moriarty? o.0)

Tracer Graves

and his personal blurb:

http://www.texas-ec.org/members/loca...h/mids0207.pdf
Oh really, sir?

Eunoli Rain

Sure. He was being very human. Cruelty, insensitivity and pompous self-congratulatory stupidity are all very human traits.

Aliselia Aeon

Yeah, I can tell he really cares

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Joy Honey

I can tell he cares by his tie!

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Soen Eber

I registered to post a comment on the site Tracer found - it will have to be approved, which probably won't be until Wednesday.

I started a thread in a Houston city-data forum to see what the locals are saying about this. Hopefully they won't lynch me for being a Northern carpetbagger

Phoebe Avro

That judge needs to do some jail time!

Void

yes... jailing and fining people for working really helps with that whole attendance thing.... because it's not like she'll have to work more to make up for the missed day and lost income.

this is exactly what is wrong with absolutism.... lack of common sense.

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Lucifer Baphomet

This is outrageous.

A good Christian judge would have found both girls husbands, and had their mother stoned for the whore that she is.

What is the great state of Texas coming to.

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Zaida Gearbox

Where the hell is Child Protective Services????

Gabriell Anatra

If you are interested in justice it is a shitty example, true, on the other hand, it you want to demonstrate that the only thing that matters is the assembly line production of interchangeable 'units' for consumption by industry according to proper bureaucratic documentation it's a great way to go about it.

Lesson well taught Judge. In your world the citizens are just generic parts of the machine and all that matters is having the right forms filled out in the right way.

It's interesting. My parents supposedly left the city to get away from that view of people as disposable assembly line components. However the rural areas seem even more hell-bent on implementing it than the cities are.

Eris

He sure sent a message.

Just drop out.

Congratulations, assbutt.

Casey Pelous

"I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber.

Didn't want to do it.

I felt I owed it to them."

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Isabeau Imako

So if a kid misses enough classes in Texas, they send you to jail?


What do they do to kids who don't eat all their vegetables? Gas chamber?

Mad Mouse

In Ohio the parents can get fined or go to jail for their kid's truancy.

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Void

No, no, I'm sure that's the one for not doing your homework.... and engraved on the pendulum will be the words "bet you wish you'd have read the book now, huh?"

Brenda Archer

And here I thought hard work and ambition were supposed to be conservative values. See what I know.

And indeed where the hell is child protective? There's a minor even younger than this one who evidently has no adult caretaker.

IsisAlexander

That is the worst thing for these situations.

I grew up with my maternal grandparents and brother. When my grandpa died i was 16. My grandma was in her 70s, couldnt read, write, or drive. My brother was 12. I became head of the house. It was stressful. But we made it work.

My greatest fear was that Child protective services would find out. They would taken me and my brother away from my grandma. They would of split us up. I would never seen my brother and grandma again.

As far as prosecuting her parents, if they left the state it may be more difficult.

The best thing the judge could of done is suggest to her and her siblings become emancipated from her parents. That way they could apply for state and fed aid without having parents.

The law doesnt work well with "out of the norm" situations.

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