Monday, May 28, 2012

Texas honor student jailed for missing too much school


They wouldn't even do this in the now Communist Vietnam from whence she came. What a screwed up country we have become.



KHOU
VERBATIM POST

HOUSTON—A judge threw a 17-year-old 11th grade honor student from Willis High School in jail after she missed school again.

Judge Lanny Moriarty said last month Diane Tran was in his Justice of the Peace court for truancy and he warned her then to stop missing school. But she recently missed classes again so Wednesday he issued a summons and had her arrested in open court when she appeared.

Tran said she works a full-time job, a part-time job and takes advanced placement and dual credit college level courses. She said she is often too exhausted to wake up in time for school. Sometimes she misses the entire day, she said. Sometimes she arrives after attendance has been taken.

The judge ordered Tran to spend 24 hours in jail and pay a $100 fine. Judge Moriarty admitted that he wants to make an example of Tran.

“If you let one (truant student) run loose, what are you gonna’ do with the rest of ‘em? Let them go too?” Judge Moriarty asked.

Tran said she is working so hard because she is helping to support an older brother who attends Texas A&M University and a baby sister who lives with relatives in Houston. Tran said her parents divorced “out of the blue” and both moved away, leaving her in Willis. Her mother lives in Georgia, she said.

“I always thought our family was happy,” the teen said tearfully.

Tran lives with the family of one of her employers. They own a wedding venue. She works at the Vineyard of Waverly Manor on weekends and at a dry cleaners full time.

“She goes from job to job, from school she stays up ‘til 7 o’clock in the morning,” said her friend, co-worker and classmate Devin Hill.

9 comments:

  1. Are you freakin kidding me? I've seen this story in passing and thought it deplorable. I didn't realize this was here in Texas...

    This Bastard Judge should be run out of town. THe Friggen school nonsense. All for the all-mighty Federal dollar!! Bless this girls for what she is doing for her family...... This shit has too end....soon...

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  2. If he had half a brain, he would have awarded her a gold medal.

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  3. I read this story last night on some news site and I ranted and raved for 5 minutes...yes, if we let any other teens follow in her footsteps what will happen??. We might have all these kids working hard and taking respsoiblity for their lives and their future. We must stop this now!!

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  4. Run out of town?

    Naw......tar and feather the bastard!

    Bob
    III

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  5. Really, what can you say? I wonder if he's as hard on the various "no limit" skittles types?

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  6. I wonder if he's as hard on the various "no limit" skittles types?

    Three guesses and the first two don't count!:)

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  7. Justice in America,just think,if she were the granddaughter of a Martha`s Vineyard bootlegger or a famous black football player ,she could get away with murder!.

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  8. This beats anything I have seen of late. I thought judges were suppose to be a bit wiser than the rest of us. Obviously he isn't near as bright as the child. One would think he or someone in his staff would have investigated the circumstances a bit better. She would be better off acing the GED exam and pursue University on her own.
    Maybe his eyesight is poor and he thought her American Indian, that would explain it all better.

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  9. Maybe his eyesight is poor and he thought her American Indian, that would explain it all better.

    :)

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