A mother has been ordered to jail for nearly 6 months after her two elementary school children missed more than 10 per cent of last year’s school year, setting an example as one of the firsts by a new state law in California.
Pleading guilty to her crime, Cuevas is one of the first to be convicted under the California law and the second to be jailed in Kings County this year. County officials say there are many others currently at risk of the new law.
Ms Mooney, another mom who has received a warning from the state said, ‘put her on the freeway or something, clean up the mess or something but who’s going to watch her kids if she’s in jail?’.
My thoughts: Giving the state the power to jail a mother for not seeing to it that her kids went to school more than 90% of the time makes me very uneasy. What happens when they claim the same right when a child is deemed to be severely overweight? There are people in government that believe they not only know what’s best for our kids, but that they are responsible for protecting the kids, rather than the parents.
Sending this mom to jail for truancy should not be within the rights of the state, is counterproductive, and is a gross overreaction. Just my two cents….
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