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Kelley Williams-Bolar Sentence Ends Early; Appeal forthcoming

Jan 29, 2011 10:41

Kelley Williams-Bolar Sentence Ends Early; Appeal forthcoming

Kelley Williams-Bolar was released from jail on Thursday, a day ahead of schedule. But the attention - and outrage - over her case shows no sign of ending anytime soon, even garnering notice from some celebrities.

Williams-Bolar had originally been sentenced to 10 days in jail, out of ( Read more... )

race / racism, ohio, education

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spidergwen January 29 2011, 02:32:10 UTC

This is such bullshit, I can't even.

deathchibi January 29 2011, 02:34:55 UTC

I was told part of it was that she hadn't paid tuition that the school had been charging.

Puh-lease. It's just because she tried to send her kids to a wealthy, mostly white school. :/ This is just awful and outrageous.

lickety_split January 29 2011, 02:52:00 UTC

The monthly out-of-district fee cost was comparable to college tuition.

baked_goldfish January 29 2011, 03:37:02 UTC

Yep. It's the perfect way to ensure that mostly wealthy white people go to this particular school district, without outright saying, "Yes, we segregate."

deathchibi January 29 2011, 07:57:39 UTC

Yeah, which is basically economic segregation and pretty tragic. :/ Even my family couldn't afford that. Ugh. She pays taxes, let her choose.

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Re: From cnn... baked_goldfish January 29 2011, 03:18:28 UTC

That's stupidly standard now. I don't get it either, but apparently it's supposed to be the old-new-media/fake-tweet-cant-hash way of showing that something is a trending topic.

schmanda January 29 2011, 03:01:26 UTC

I'm curious if any enterprising journalists have researched yet how similar cases of district-jumping have been prosecuted.

This piece makes it sound like pleading to a misdemeanor not only wouldn't have been unheard of, but also that the judge was expecting it.

rkt January 29 2011, 03:49:02 UTC

I'm curious if any enterprising journalists have researched yet how similar cases of district-jumping have been prosecuted.

or how it hasn't been?

imnotasquirrel January 29 2011, 18:22:27 UTC

My high school had a lot of kids district-jumping, so they just did an enrollment purge where they asked for proof of residency. If you couldn't provide it, you had to leave. No prosecution at all.

etherealtsuki January 29 2011, 04:19:04 UTC

This kind of shit only happen because these shitty zoning laws.

I can't blame people for trying to jump thru loopholes of the system because they wanted a better educations for their kids.

Seriously, it's fucking ridic that you're forced to send your child to a school with poor education value because they live in a certain area and the only other options is to send them to private school or win big in a charter school lottery in some places.

If America really want to revitalize our education system, the zoning has to go and ignore the privleged bitching over it.

deathchibi January 29 2011, 08:00:24 UTC

But they can have the POORS and NON-WHITES going to a good school. That's just outrageous. >:( They learn valuable survival skills in poor schools!

And yeah, it's sad.