Ohio mom Kelley Williams-Bolar is currently sitting in jail, accused of illegally trying to get her daughters into a better school district. More on the heated debate: http://yhoo.it/gV9QGK Do you think she should serve time or were her actions justified?

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/mom-jailed-for-sending-kids-to-better-school-23973624

They're charging her because she doesn't live in the district nor pay the taxes there, but if her father lives in the district, isn't he paying taxes there?

This story is disgracefull. Targeting a mother like this They are acting like they killed someone and the administrators and that judge should be ashamed of themselves.

This kind of heated debate happens where I live as well.

This mom should not be jailed, what a waste of taxpayer money that could be better served used elsewhere.

I think officials should be jailed for wasting taxpayer money... people can be so backwards sometimes.

paintedlady said:

This kind of heated debate happens where I live as well.

This mom should not be jailed, what a waste of taxpayer money that could be better served used elsewhere.

I think officials should be jailed for wasting taxpayer money... people can be so backwards sometimes.

Yeah, like maybe spent improving the school district in the area where the woman lives so she can send her kids there and know they'll get a good education.

Nothinbutjoy said:

paintedlady said:

This kind of heated debate happens where I live as well.

This mom should not be jailed, what a waste of taxpayer money that could be better served used elsewhere.

I think officials should be jailed for wasting taxpayer money... people can be so backwards sometimes.

Yeah, like maybe spent improving the school district in the area where the woman lives so she can send her kids there and know they'll get a good education.

Exactly!

I love the way you think

paintedlady said:

Nothinbutjoy said:

Yeah, like maybe spent improving the school district in the area where the woman lives so she can send her kids there and know they'll get a good education.

Exactly!

I love the way you think

Tankies

I don't understand, I've known others who have their children in school in a different district, I read their reason why but I don't understand what the problem is. Like someone said, it's not like she committed murder or something. And her dad pays taxes in that district...

I did it for years...made nice with the principal, i was a young mom with a job and i couldnt go across town to pick her up everyday so she went to school near where i worked......goddammit !!!

where is the interview on the school board???

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

This story is disgracefull. Targeting a mother like this They are acting like they killed someone and the administrators and that judge should be ashamed of themselves.

AGREED!

take the $$ that all this is costing & ffire the crap teachers & hire decent ones that actually CARE about teaching.

its god dam common sence.

I heard this on news radio today.

sonic said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

This story is disgracefull. Targeting a mother like this They are acting like they killed someone and the administrators and that judge should be ashamed of themselves.

AGREED!

take the $$ that all this is costing & ffire the crap teachers & hire decent ones that actually CARE about teaching.

its god dam common sence.

Really, this discussion should not be about "crap" teachers because shit laws like No Child left behind did nothing for children and teachers and everything for the corporations that "offered" the standardized testing.

Teachers have to be teachers and social workers, all the while attacked by assfuckinghole Republicans who are purposely trying to destroy what it means to teach in favor of catering to these meaningless corporations that only care to make money.

Most teachers care about teaching, we have to honor them for doing a job that would be impossible for all us us who don't teach for a living

What is everyone complaining about? I knew a woman who was feeding her kids three nutritious meals a day with healthy snacks in between. I called social services on her. This crap has to stop.

first she was not targeted of singled out they looked at 100 familes.

second, I am not sure why a school district should take on the cost for another district.

third, this makes a good argument for the voucher program

forth, jail REALLY? jail? the judge felt she should go to jail? I can see finding her guilty but probation and a fine she can afford was all that was needed. (really $30,000 really?)

in the end I can not blame the school district (i do not care about the grandfather the child was not living with him.)

it is sad but the mother choose to fight it. I do think the judgment was way too harsh. and I am sure this post will be twisted into something it is not.

CuddlyBear said:

What is everyone complaining about? I knew a woman who was feeding her kids three nutritious meals a day with healthy snacks in between. I called social services on her. This crap has to stop.

that comparison only works if the food you are feeding your child belonged to someone else.

However we may feel about the overall issue, I think this woman has got a pretty solid basis of appeal looming -- at least for her sentencing. Due to the very disparity that made her act, Ohio's school funding schema has been ruled in violation of the state constitution four times since 1997, with the Ohio Supreme Court eventually giving up jurisdiction... to whom I don't know. The state adopted an "evidence-based model" geared toward improved equity in district funding in 2009, but solid reports on any benefits are yet forthcoming. In the meantime, anecdotal evidence of a corrective trend has been mixed at best. All the while, Akron has been one of the most financially strapped municipalities in Ohio -- first with many of its rubber and plastics companies relocating to Asia in the '90s and leaving many un/underemployed Akronites unable to adequately support schools; and then with the national financial meltdown of the past several years.

This woman acted the way many Akronites would -- and, believe me, do (just more stealthily). Somewhere in this process, someone's gonna recognize that, and I honestly think she'll be vindicated in the end.

[Edited 1/28/11 8:19am]

As an aside, Copley Township needn't get too cocky about their schools. They're OK, based on what I know, but it'd be really fun to find out just how many of their families clandestinely send kids to nearby Cuyahoga Falls schools, which have been considerably more desirable, if undeservingly so.

[Edited 1/28/11 8:33am]