Hot Stuff: Injustice in Ohio

[Smiley and West]

	The case of Kelley Williams-Bolar. Smiley: "It’s not about school choice. It’s about all schools being choice."     West: "Nothing more sublime and beautiful than a mama’s love, and this is a mama’s love in action."

[safirah chinwe]

it's funny how action can quickly be taken to hold a parent accountable for sending her child to a better school but no one can be held accountable for the "at-risk" students enrolled without a means of contacting their parents/guardians.

[Bri'on]

"...While her sentence was light in terms of jail time, Williams-Bolar was put on probation for two years and ordered to complete 80 hours of community service. The conviction may threaten her ability to get the teaching license she was working on.

 

According to NPR, "...And the judge felt strongly enough about it in this case that the judge has written a letter to the State Department of Education saying this woman has no record, please don't make this a reason to pull her license."

 

The case has struck a cord across the nation with many sympathetic to the struggle of a mother trying to get the best education for her children. The racial undertones of Williams-Bolar's case have also not gone unnoticed..."

 

Source:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/27/kelley-williams-bolar-scho...

 

Truely the punishment does not fit the crime here. At least the outcry of the people have shaken the halls of justice to a degree where the judge is "throttling back" a little. In reality, the judge should use her influence and open doors for this woman to complete her license along with a smooth transition into employment. Now that would be true justice!

[Avid Follower]

It appears they are making a nationwide example out of her regarding residency.  Clear warning that this could be you for the families that want to or have done the same. Ironic that Rahm Emmanuel's residency issue leads to him running for mayor.

[Bri'on]

Truely...a tale of two lives.   ;-)

Avid Follower said:

It appears they are making a nationwide example out of her regarding residency.  Clear warning that this could be you for the families that want to or have done the same. Ironic that Rahm Emmanuel's residency issue leads to him running for mayor.

[peoples]

This is sad. Well, Barack is going cut budgets for community organizers(THIS MEANS MORE CRIME IN TE BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS. WAKE UP BEFORE WE DIE). HE'S READING THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN WHO ALLOWED CRACK INTO OUR COMMUNITIES, COME ON. Can you believe that? Shameful. Shameful. And you black folks who are still blinded by a black face and can't see pass his words are burying us even further in the dirt. Dr. King told Harry Belafonte about his fears that the civil rights act could be something that can lead his people into a burning buiding(mmmm...WHITE HOUSE) (Tavis Smiley interview w/ Harry Belafonte). I stood in the freezing cold for this man and I'm ashamed to even speak his name. BLACK WALLSTREET! All those black people who are Barack zombies, don't ever say that Dr. West and Tavis never told you or warned you.

                      I'm calling for a Peaceful REVOLUTION before a black man and his evil white puppetmasters kill us all. But if I die because the fact that none of you who are on this site didn't believe in BLACK WALLSTREET 1921, then I'll blame you all for my death and many others(including Dr. West and Tavis) for not speaking about this amazing place than can inspire black men and women (thugs and gangsters), believe me. Speak out about it and then let's see how the reaction toward it is, because I have, and its made a lot of attitudes change. F#@$ all those millionaires and billionaires, especially those who preach and study the words of Dr. King, Malcolm X, Bob Marley, Huey P., and the Millions and Billions of Africans who fought and died for the right to have that green leaf w/ dead presidents who've owned slaves in your hands. MONEY WILL MAKE A BLACK MAN RAPE, KILL, STEAL, BETRAY (JUDAS) his own MOTHER AND PEOPLE.  WHAT A SHAME!!! FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO. PEACE AND BLACK WALLSTREET 1921. 

[Elizabeth Kendall]

SMDH !  I live in Cleveland and when i heard this story I thought back when i was trying to enroll my nephew into high school after taking him in. ( He was getting into a lot of trouble in another state). I was told since he I don't have custody of him then I can't enroll him. Getting custody isn't easy and quick since he was about to be 18 and he was from another state. I was also told the main reason for the custody is because i a RENTER NOT A HOMEOWNER.  If i owned my own ~ i could allow whomever to live at my residents. SMDH.  I had to eventually find a home school program which I ended up encounter the same run around.  Somehow we got around some loopholes since he turned 18 BUT later on the program was eliminated. They found out to many kids were in the program improperly.  (definitely my nephew was one of them.)  When my son was in the 7th grade I did the same ... since my mom was a homeowner .. we said we lived with my mom ..so he could go to the best vocational school.  As a parent our job is to protect our children. AND WHAT HAPPENED TO NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.  I've read stories of parents harming their children and not getting so much jail time.  Why didn't the school just have the children removed?  Why punish a good mom for trying her best at providing her children with a better education that her neighborhood could provide?  I know the school didn't suggest helping her with some financial assistance to possibly move into the neighborhood ... ANY SUGGESTION WOULD OF BEEN BETTER THAN JAIL. 

 

[Phillip Nero]

I wonder, what would have happen had her child been a star football player at a minority highschool, and a white highschool needed his skills to win city or state,would she gotten arrested? I seen that tried here in my home city and most time the miority school keeps its star s at their school.'

That is just another of the many idiotic laws, that are still being used to control minorities , to keep them in their place, as it were.

America has always been Chief of the Double Talk.

 

[Bri'on]

It would be see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.   ;-)

Phillip Nero said:

I wonder, what would have happen had her child been a star football player at a minority highschool, and a white highschool needed his skills to win city or state,would she gotten arrested? I seen that tried here in my home city and most time the miority school keeps its star s at their school.'

That is just another of the many idiotic laws, that are still being used to control minorities , to keep them in their place, as it were.

America has always been Chief of the Double Talk.

 

[Samuel Ephrem]

This story actually made my son cry. He was trying to imagine how her daughters might have felt when they found out that their mom had been sentenced to jail for trying to send her kids to a good school. My sons are lucky enough to go to a private school - a small sacrifice we decided to pay for the benefit of quality education. I would not risk sending them to the local public schools - even if my local public schools are better than most in the city, at least not until they reach high school.

[lynn]

Education should be and is a requirement of the country and the people not a right! Without education we're all just a bunch of idiots! It is a shame what we as a people have to go through to get a decent education!!

[Howard R. Lee]

This case should serve as a wake up call to the nation. A catalyst for why we should take action to make public schools equal. In white schools we have a computer at every desk. In black schools we have 1 computer for every 6 to 7 students. Will you try to convince me this is not by design? You could never convince me this is not by design. I need to be talked down this is ridiculous!

[Steve Tenerelli]

Imprisoning this woman was a ridiculous overreaction, too bad this D.A. wasn't working in the Justice Department during the recent debacle with our banks.  I've worked in Education - and it's easy to see why schools in wealthy neighborhoods give a better education: a larger tax base means more money spent per student.  

Politicians, and tax conservatives always cry that you can't just throw money at the problem, or will claim the school system is broken.  It's obviously not broken in the wealthy neighborhoods where more money is spent on education.  

I agree with Tavis; equal education should be a Constitutional right - and education spending should be mandated, by the Constitution, so that each school in the United States gets the exact same dollar amount, per child, K-12.  Start there - then look at the system itself.