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CINCINNATI -- A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.
Brian Gegner, of Fairfield, was sentenced last week to 180 days in jail for contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor.
Newsmax.com - Man Jailed When Daughter Fails to Get Diploma (http://www.newsmax.com/us/odd_diploma_father_jailed/2008/05/13/95554.html - broken link)
She's 18. It's her fault. We could probably blame the system, the father and President Bush if we wanted. This is a country of blame. We love to blame someone else for our lot in life. It's very sad that people don't take responsibility for themselves, instead they blame someone else.
That judge needs to lose his job!! This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to bang my head against the wall. Perhaps that would dumb me down enough to handle all of the asinine things going on around me.
this is so stupid. how often are parents held criminally liable for their children's action? esp. their older teenage children? when a kid shoots up a classroom, is the parent arrested? when a kid is arrested for the 10th time for theft, is the parent arrested?
I know in some cases, parents can be held liable, but in this case, the parents are not at fault. did they do a crap job raising their daughter? possibly. but the dad shouldn't be thrown in jail b/c his daughter is being an ass and skipping out
I think I'm going to forward this article to my dad, let him know how lucky he is he wasn't arrested for the number of times I've skipped school
Months ago the judge ordered this compliance. The judge ORDERED this father to make sure his daughter passed the GED exam. The father, at that point, was legally, the responsible party. There's a court order to prove it. The father has custody. The girl's 18, has a baby, is engaged to be married, and can't pass the GED exam? Something sketchy going on here.
Months ago the judge ordered this compliance. The judge ORDERED this father to make sure his daughter passed the GED exam. The father, at that point, was legally, the responsible party. There's a court order to prove it. The father has custody. The girl's 18, has a baby, is engaged to be married, and can't pass the GED exam? Something sketchy going on here.
Well for one she sounds busy! lol
Maybe she feels like taking her own life in her own hands?
I mean once you have a kid you really no longer feel like a kid!
Stupid judge, you can't force people to be educated until they figure
out a medication for that. And they will!
heres a link for some parents getting jailed for truancy charges here where I live in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida.... this was a unit sweep it seems, with two other counties involved....
15 Parents Of 'Habitual Truants' Arrested - Education News Story - WJXT Jacksonville (http://www.news4jax.com/education/16175110/detail.html - broken link)
I think the video in the upper right is the woman named Terri Bullard it mentions in the write up....
this guy tho, this father up in Kentucky and his ex wife, it seems this stuff happened to their daughter when she was UNDER 18, and so, the court ordered them to make her finish school WHEN SHE WAS CHARGED AS A JUVENILE, thats the reason he got the ax, should have been the mother really, since the daughter resided w/her during most of the truancy, how hard is it to pass the math section of the GED anyway?...they practically give you the answers to those in 3rd grade....this kid needs to hear the sound of bars slamming on her instead, the Dad needs to be set free, the judge treated with psychotherapy, and the rest of the world needs to learn the truancy leads to real trouble with the state if you dont keep up with you underaged kids.... phew, and we thought college tuition was ruff....
this is so stupid. how often are parents held criminally liable for their children's action? esp. their older teenage children? when a kid shoots up a classroom, is the parent arrested? when a kid is arrested for the 10th time for theft, is the parent arrested?
I know in some cases, parents can be held liable, but in this case, the parents are not at fault. did they do a crap job raising their daughter? possibly. but the dad shouldn't be thrown in jail b/c his daughter is being an ass and skipping out
I think I'm going to forward this article to my dad, let him know how lucky he is he wasn't arrested for the number of times I've skipped school
The more I think about it, the more I like it.....yeah....I like the idea of holding parents accountable for dysfunctional child rearing. You beat your kid, your kid beats up Billy at school, parents are ordered to attend some sort of parental class and pay for medical costs. Yeah, that really sounds like a great idea.
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parents jailed here in Florida too....
