[Csiko]

Homeless mother Tanya McDowell who sent son, 6, to better school in wrong town jailed for five years | Mail Online

Saw this just now and I am mad as hell.

A mother who pleaded guilty to fraudulently enrolling her six-year-old son in the wrong school district has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Tonya McDowell sent her son to an elementary school in Norwalk, Connecticut, instead of her home city of Bridgeport.

The 34-year-old, who was homeless when she was charged with felony larceny last year, said she wanted the best education possible for the boy.

So I guess the taxpayers got what they wanted: funding this woman's 3 meals a day and room and board.

Really surprised (or maybe not?) that local stations have not picked this up at all. Almost embarrassing.

[willow wind]

There is nothing embarrassing about it. The sentencing was actually last March. She wasn't sent to prison for enrolling her kid in school. Her charges and sentencing stem from the fact that she's a drug dealer and kept selling drugs even while she was out on bail for the school charges.

[Stratford, Ct. Resident]

Originally Posted by willow wind

There is nothing embarrassing about it. The sentencing was actually last March. She wasn't sent to prison for enrolling her kid in school. Her charges and sentencing stem from the fact that she's a drug dealer and kept selling drugs even while she was out on bail for the school charges.

Exactly.

[7 Wishes]

British papers in general (especially that source) are notorious for "sensationalizing" news. There's no way she'd go to prison for simply that, use common sense!

[AnonChick]

The Daily Mail is UK's version of Weekly World News and the National Enquirer. Whatever you read there, you should include "three-headed giraffe" and "Jacko's love child" in every 3rd paragraph, and it'll make a lot more sense.

[jaydez]

According to the court she was setenced to a total of 12 years in prision, suspended after 5 years plus 5 years probation after. She was convicted of 6 counts of 21a-278(b) Sale of Certain Illegal Drugs and 1 count of 53a-122 Larceny 1st degree. She was convicted of the larceny 2/2012 and the drug charges 3/2102. She was sentenced to all 7 on 3/27/12.

I'm sure that if she didnt sell the drugs she would have only recevied probation for the larceny charge. Fortunately, another waste to society is off the street.

[Stylo]

Talk about sensationalist bias.

[AMSS]

She's in jail for drug dealing and I doubt her reason for putting her kid in Norwalk schools had to do with getting a good education. Yes, she was living at a shelter. But CT state law is that any homeless kid will be transported (free of charge) to and from his previous district as a means of keeping some stability in the kid's life. Instead this woman palmed her child off on a babysitter living in subsidized housing who ended up getting in trouble for this kid.

As for the districting, I'm sorry you think anyone is entitled to something they are not paying for. If you're not willing to move, pay for private school or homeschool than you get involved in your local school system to make it better. That's what most of us do.