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Jail Time Proposed for Parents Who Miss Parent-Teacher Conferences

Monday, June 21, 2010 17:10
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A Detroit, Mich. prosecutor is threatening parents with jail time if they do not make it to at least one parent-teacher conference annually. Meanwhile, the Detroit Public Schools system is bribing parents with $25 gift cards to Target for providing up-to-date student information upon enrollment.

Treating parents like children with a punishment and reward method of discipline should be seen as an “incentive to encourage those responsible to take and active interest in their children’s education,” explained Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worth in a June 14 press release. “We should not have to legislate this, but what we have been doing is not working.”

According to Worth, Detroit school kids are becoming increasingly more prone to criminal behavior, so this “last resort” effort to force parents in to attending parent-teacher conferences should somehow control their children’s’ propensity towards crime. Yea, it doesn’t quite make any sense, especially considering that locking parents up in jail will only serve to … READ MORE

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