'Exhausted' Honor Student, jailed for truancy

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What the fuck is this shit? Where did the parents go? They got divorced and... what? Just went their separate ways? And the fucking judge. If there are no parents around, how the fuck do you get parental notes? And the school? Surely someone at the school had to be aware of her situation?
 
Next thing you know a judge will order an execution (it is Texas) to set an example of girls like this who run around loose
 
Does anyone think there might be part of this story that is not being told? I mean, yeah she technically has no parents so how is all this transpiring? Something smells a little funny here but regardless, I'm sure this girl is a victim.

This is what everything is coming to in this country: victim blaming. I've been on that end of it and I'm telling you now, it's sickening.
 
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Lkr said:
Next thing you know a judge will order an execution (it is Texas) to set an example of girls like this who run around loose
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Right? We execute everyone.

Seriously, stop with this shit. It's so annoying and ruins so many of these topics. This is a fucking moron of a judge, doesn't matter what fucking state he lives in. Fuck her school district too, the Counselors at her school should be trying to figure out what is going on and helping her out. My senior year in high school, I took both counselor and office assistant electives, and I can tell you most school districts have a plan in place and constantly send out counselors to see why the kid is missing so much and what they can do to help. This isn't just in smaller school districts either, I know some of the Dallas ISDs must do this too, because my cousin frequently got visits from them until he dropped out.
 
I don't believe any of this. Why would the parents just disappear like this? Uncles, cousins, other family members to contact to at least help out?The whole thing sounds ridiculous.
 
Story is confusing. Her parent divorced, so where in the hell did they go? Surely one would stick around to take care of the kids, house, etc?

As for jailing truants, I agree with it in principal but it obviously wasn't needed in this case.

Truancy is a serious problem, this would, in theory at least, help to lower it or go some way to helping to lower it, but it needs to be done in a case by case basis. Not taking each individuals circumstances into account is pretty damn asinine.
 
Speedymanic said:
Story is confusing. Her parent divorced, so where in the hell did they go? Surely one would stick around to take care of the kids, house, etc?

As for jailing truants, I agree with it in principal but it obviously wasn't needed in this case.

Truancy is a serious problem, this would, in theory at least, help to lower it or go some way to helping to lower it, but it needs to be done in a case by case basis. Not taking each individuals circumstances into account is pretty damn asinine.
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why is truancy a serious problem? why should going to school be required?
 
Because no one wants to talk responsibility for community interaction and more free-form education opportunities—so they jam us in large textbook prisons and learn to not worry about it too much.

It could be worse. It could be Japan.
 
the walrus said:
why is truancy a serious problem? why should going to school be required?
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I always wondered that my self. Going to school should be a privilege, not a mandate. Interestingly enough, my highschool graduating class was half the size of my freshman class. Where did half of the kids go? Jail for truancy? No, they were just really good at hiding.
 
the walrus said:
why is truancy a serious problem? why should going to school be required?
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Why shouldn't it?

Should we allow every generation to do whatever they want? Shouldn't we make sure we have an educated generation? Do we really want a generation that lacks social skills? A generation that lacks any kind of prospects?

A generation that wastes their entire lives leeching off the state as they lack the most basic skills they require to find work?
 
Wait, she has a brother in college and she is supporting him? Both her parents left her? What a fucked up situation. That judge is a real piece of work.
SpectreFire said:
My god. If this idiot can be a judge... we're all qualified to be judges.
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Apparently he is a justice of the peace. In Texas they are elected. -_-
 
Fucked up parents

Fucked up laws not providing support these kids need.

Fucked up School.

Fucked up judge and ruling.

Just fucked up, this is incredibly infuriating.
 
Not only her parents, but what about her older brother... Why the hell is she providing for him as well? It should have been the other way around. So many mindboggling things about this story. I truly hope she gets what she deserves, which does not include a record.
 
Isn't the whole US law system based on exceptions and special cases making "law" on the go? Why not in this case? Honest working girl who also studies and now gets hit by the justice system. She should start working at a Wall Street bank stealing millions and getting away with a warning and/or bailout money for free :)
 
I don't get it
why does she have to support two siblings? One lives with relatives the other is older and at college
since when is divorce=abandon kids? where are the parents in this?
 
instead of helping her find help he throws her in jail to make her life worse? what a dispenser of justice

and how are her parents not responsible if she is under 18? and is she in jail or a juvie?
 
This is unreal. No way someone could be this stupid.

I might give this asshole a phone call later. God damn I'm pissed
 
http://www.khou.com/news/local/Peop...nor-student-jailed-for-truancy-154235505.html

HOUSTON—People across the country have expressed their support for the Willis honor student sent to jail Wednesday night for missing too much school.

Diane Tran is often exhausted because she works a full time job, a part time job, and takes honors classes at Willis High. She is trying to support a brother in college and a little sister who lives with relatives. Her parents divorced and moved away.

Tran stood alone before Judge Lanny Moriarty Wednesday.

"Now this girl’s got a record, which could hamper her later in life," said KHOU viewer David Byrne of the Woodlands. "My immediate reaction was there’s something wrong here, so that’s when I got in touch with you guys."

Judge Moriarty is off on Fridays so he has not made a decision as to whether he will throw the case out.

"I hadn’t thought on that issue because it turns me, ‘Well, he’s soft. He’s not gonna do nothing.’ I’m taking off at 11:30 today," said the judge.

Tran says her future could be greatly hampered. She may want to be a doctor some day.

Many people expressed their outrage on Facebook.

"Don’t you feel safer now that an honors student has been thrown in jail? This is ridiculous," wrote Bill Palmer.

Some comments have been critical of Tran’s parents and now her friends say she feels she has shamed her parents.

Tran lives with the family of her part-time employer. They are working on setting up a fund in her name at a local bank.
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What a douchebag. He doesn't want to be seen as soft?? Good to hear about her employer helping her out though.
 
"I hadn’t thought on that issue because it turns me, ‘Well, he’s soft. He’s not gonna do nothing.’ I’m taking off at 11:30 today," said the judge.
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she's vietnamese. i'm suprised the other family members haven't helped out. usually vietnamese family are pretty helpful to one another
 
Is there anybody in place to look over such cases where the judge is a complete and utter moron? I mean, really. It's like he looked at nothing except the truancy thing. Maybe there are other details that aren't being publicised, but he's been absolutely dismal with what's been presented. What is the school doing? Why isn't anything being done to reprimand the parents instead? I hope the publicity out of this helps get her some much needed support, at least.
 
Jintor said:
So instead of being soft you'll be a heartless, soulless robot judge. Good choice.
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Some decisions that people in power make are beyond comprehension.

There are some people who have ZERO common sense and don't understand anything about the world.
 
What is she supposed to do?

Not take dual credit U.S. history, English, college algebra, Spanish AP, and work two jobs to support two siblings after her parents divorced and abandoned them?

But you skipped school a day, that'll be one night of jail for you!

That'll teach her!

Asshole.
 
perfectchaos007 said:
Weird. Usually on a first offense, a student would have the option of being prosecuted in "teen court". But they don't take truancy lightly here in Texas. Sometimes social workers here will take a kid out of their home even if the kid is being homeschooled. Get your ass in the public school system of you're subject to hard time!

-Texas
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This wasn't her first offense:
He had warned her last month to stop missing her classes.
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the walrus said:
why is truancy a serious problem? why should going to school be required?
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The school district gets its funding based on attendance.
 
Seems the lesson the judge is teaching is that he's an unthinking, uncaring asshole. I'd hate to go to him with a traffic ticket, I'd probably get the death sentence.
 
Is a day in jail really going to tarnish her future that much? From what I understand, it doesn't sound like she's actually being charged with anything.

Obviously she doesn't deserve it, I'm just confused how this would ruin her hopes of becoming a doctor.
 
Chinpoko_Master said:
Is a day in jail really going to tarnish her future that much? From what I understand, it doesn't sound like she's actually being charged with anything.

Obviously she doesn't deserve it, I'm just confused how this would ruin her hopes of becoming a doctor.
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Well, aside from the fact that it's an inconvenience she should not be subjected to, it would seem to me that she would have SOME sort of record now. I'm sure it could be expunged, but I can't imagine serving jail time wouldn't go on a criminal record in some capacity. And this HAS to further fuck up her sense of stability and morality at her age.
 
Tideas said:
she's vietnamese. i'm suprised the other family members haven't helped out. usually vietnamese family are pretty helpful to one another
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Ok, time for really strange coincidence....

... I don't know if there's some secret Vietnamese social convention we don't know about, but I actually know a 22 year old Vietnamese guy whose family lived in Seattle. And the same thing happened to him.

When he was 17, his parents split up and they ran. Leaving him, a younger brother, and a younger sister, to get dumped. Apparently without warning. He came home one day and they were gone. Never heard from or saw them again AFAIK.

He had to the same thing. Go to school and work multiple jobs to pay for food and rent at a place they shacked up in, and today he's still together with his sibs and they're just making it on their own.

So... go figure.

And yes, Texas judge is a fucking stupid, ignorant, privileged piece of shit.
 
Chinpoko_Master said:
Is a day in jail really going to tarnish her future that much? From what I understand, it doesn't sound like she's actually being charged with anything.

Obviously she doesn't deserve it, I'm just confused how this would ruin her hopes of becoming a doctor.
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Probably blowing it out of proportion, but it's on her record now.

'You were jailed for truancy? I call bullshit!!'

I kid I kid.
 
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