IF IT'S OK FOR THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTERS -- WHY NOT ALL? -- Just A Minute Radio for Monday Jan 31 - 110131

            Howdy folks… it’s Monday again… and hard to get the wheels a-crankin’ –

 

            We seem to have some of those WWII Gremlins giving us an attack again.  I guess since I’m about the only one in near proximity… that must mean I’m responsible for them seeking me out for more mischief.  Does that mean I have to leave the premises?  Well we’ll just have to wait till later in the day.  Things move slowly on Monday.

           

            What stimulated today’s program is a story put out on the ‘morning bell’ I think middle of last week from the Heritage Foundation’s newsroom. It told of a mother who had two daughters… and while the script didn’t say so precisely, I take it she and her husband were separated… possibly divorced and she was seeing after the two youngsters.

            The immediate problem was the difference between the achievements of the Akron school district where the mother and daughters lived and an adjacent district where the scholastic average was something like 40 points higher. (I’ve misplaced the news release but perhaps you can get details from searching the Heritage web site.) My understanding is the mother filled out papers indicating the girls were living with their father in the higher rated school district – and after two years went by the Akron district hired a videographer to photograph the girls being driven from their home in the lower-scoring school district to a school in the better achieving one.

            Apparently the mother’s deception had been discovered and here’s where my detail falls out… the mother was as far as I can tell, brought before and judge who sentenced her to a ten day jail sentence (before it could be completed she must have achieved a release at nine days) and after that I don’t know what happened.

            Heritage packaged the contrast of the Obama family being able to live in Chicago and then transfer to an upscale school in DC with no difficulty (Since the family was able to pay the bills.) And not much else was said about it. Meanwhile the Akron mother – not so well to do – was, it seems, discovered to be ‘smuggling) [my choice of words] her daughters into the better achieving school district of Ohio whereupon when it was discovered, she was put in jail for her ‘crimes’…

 

            All of this I’ve drawn from a misplaced news release but I think it is accurate in that it asks the question: “Have we come to the place in America where we put parents in jail for trying to get a better education for their children?”  I think the details can be discovered through the Akron school district and perhaps the local court.  It’s a very interesting case… and one I believe the American public would be interested. 

 

            From what we are hearing – many states are going to be reducing their school days per week by at least  a day…. 4 day weeks instead of 5. I suspect it will make *some* children happy – but certainly not their parents (If they are normally protective of their children.) and there will be an upheaval of some kind in Ohio… which may swell across America. At least it’s worth looking into – and I’ll try to do that.

 

            Meantime… ponder the question – and send in your opinions to me or to your Congressperson(s)…

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

IF IT’S OK FOR PRESIDENT‘S DAUGHTERS -- WHY NOT ALL?

 

Just a Minute: - About two years ago when Mr. & Mrs. Obama were moving into the large white house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. -- there were big questions as to where the new President’s children would attend school.  The Obama’s picked a prestigious (and expensive) private school.

      Secretary of Education Arne sent letters to 216 scholarship families telling them they would get no further scholarship money from the District and were required to return their children to the DC public schools.

      Now it turns out a mother in Ohio wanting to exercise the same kind of choice for her two daughters spent nine days of a ten day jail sentence in an Akron jail for trying to get her kids in better schools. 

      I don’t have the space to explain it all here… but Heritage Foundation has all the relevant details if you want to ask them.

      My question is: If it’s OK for the President to shop around for schools for his children -- why does another parent have to go to jail for attempting to secure the same kind of result for her children? 

      I’m sure someone has a better answer than I do.

      <> I’m Jack Buttram

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