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High school students in Texas who make a habit of ditching school aren't just risking the wrath of an angry principal, they're going to jail. Actual, adult jail. A BuzzFeed investigation finds that more than 1,000 teens have been ordered to prison in the last three years in three big counties alone.
Chronic truants who skip court dates and don't pay fines and continue to skip school after truancy hearings.
Where are their parents ?
17 is considered adult in Texas.
And the demographics of these chronic truants...poor and minority.
If they are old enough to considered adults for penal purposes they are old enough to be considered adults capable of deciding not to go to school. Either they are mature enough to make adult choices or not. This is a crock of crap and unfairly penalizes people already shackled when it comes to meeting society's expectations.
If they are seriously trying to help these kids then put them in a locked up facility designed explicitly for this purpose, only let them out when they successfully complete one semester, and have it also include counseling.
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If they are old enough to considered adults for penal purposes they are old enough to be considered adults capable of deciding not to go to school. Either they are mature enough to make adult choices or not. This is a crock of crap and unfairly penalizes people already shackled when it comes to meeting society's expectations.
If they are seriously trying to help these kids then put them in a locked up facility designed explicitly for this purpose which also includes counseling.
I agree. By the time it come to arrest they have really pushed the system.
And there are a host of programs that they are mandated to enroll in.
The court system bends over backwards.
The fines start at about $170 for the first offense.
Now if they don't show up for hearings, continue to skip school, don't pay the fine or attempt to work out a payment program then this just builds up.
The girl in the article admitted she skipped school and continued to skip school after her court hearing.
Didn't pay the fine and it kept growing.
At 17 she could have opted for a GED program.
This article is about the tail end of the truancy process when all else has failed and the student turns 17.
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