Truancy Fascism
A US honor
student has been jailed for missing too much school in Texas.
Diane Tran,
a 17-year-old Willis High School junior, was sentenced to spent
24 hours in jail and pay $100 in fines for excessive truancy, according
to CBS Atlanta.
She had broken
a Texan law that makes it a crime to miss more than 10 days of school
in a six month period, reported
Local TV network KHOU-11.
Judge Lanny
Moriarty said that at an appearance by Tran in his Justice of the
Peace court last month he warned her to stop missing school.
When she recently
missed classes again, he issued a summons and had her arrested in
open court when she appeared.
“In such
cases, resolution of the issue is entirely in the hands of the court,”
a statement
on the website of the Willis Independent School District read.
However, Diane
is not the stereotypical truant one would expect in such a case.
May
31, 2012
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