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ls317

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Sat Jun-18-05 03:09 AM
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Get Kids To School

A Franklin mother is getting an unpleasant lesson, and it's not unfolding in a classroom.

The drama for Angela Dawn Wood is playing out in a Johnson County courtroom, where she is charged with allowing her 9-year-old son to miss too many days and hours of school.

Wood's son was absent or tardy to school 57 times during the 2004-05 school year, according to charging information filed in Johnson Superior Court.

The 32-year-old mother was arrested on the Class B misdemeanor charge this week, then released from jail on $1,000 bond. She could not be reached for comment Friday.

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izzie

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Sat Jun-18-05 04:16 AM
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1. Where are the school police? Do not laugh we used to have them

I guess with home schooling it is hard to tell what is going on. If you were walking around town during school hours some one would always ask why you were not in school. Besides that every one thought some thing was wrong with you if you were in school at home. Many times it was just said they were religious nuts or lived to far in the woods so hicks. I grew up 40 miles from Boston in a town in Maine so it was pretty middle road. Then another think which is more important. Every one knew each other and all the teachers knew every one. Small schools had something going for them.

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Sat Jun-18-05 05:28 AM
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2. It takes a village...

"If you were walking around town during school hours some one would always ask why you were not in school."

One of the things that small schools had going was the smaller class sizes which made it possible for the teacher to identify students at risk for failure and to spend time bringing them up to speed.

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Sat Jun-18-05 09:27 AM
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3. Whatever happened to truant officers?

Don't they have them anymore? And yes, when I was growing up, any adult would ask a child why they weren't in school on a school day -- and the adult did not have to know you personally to say something like that. It happened in big towns and cities, too.

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ls317

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Sat Jun-18-05 12:50 PM
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4. Budget Cuts

This city had to lay off teachers and cut back on school police officers.School police mainly deal with events and problems on school grounds.
Thats why the Sheriff Department become involved in the case

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