Update: Mom Freed, Sent Kids to Wrong District
An Akron, Ohio mother of two was released from jail Wednesday after serving most of her 10-day sentence following a conviction on charges she tampered with records so her daughters could attend a school in a better district. ...Williams-Bolar’s daughters, now ages 16 and 12, stayed with Williams while their mother was in jail, he said. They stopped attending school in the Copley-Fairlawn district before the start of the 2009 school year.
Williams-Bolar is not the only parent accused of enrolling students out-of-zone in the Copley- Fairlawn district. School officials testified that there were 30 to 40 similar cases during the same time Williams-Bolar was investigated.
"We were able to resolve 99.9 percent of our residency disputes with the folks we called in for residency hearings," Superintendent Brian Poe said in an article on Ohio.com. "In this case, we were not able to resolve that." "So, therefore, with the information that we were able to uncover, we felt it necessary to provide that information to the prosecutor's office,” Poe said in the article. Attempts by BlackAmericaWeb.com to reach Poe were unsuccessful. ...
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I'm wondering why Williams-Bolar's case wasn't able to be resolved? Is it because the mother failed to cooperate or the school didn't wish to resolve her case like they did the others? I'd be interested to find out the reason, because like I stated before usually people are told to take their kids from the school rather than taking them to court.
Williams-Bolar is not the only parent accused of enrolling students out-of-zone in the Copley- Fairlawn district. School officials testified that there were 30 to 40 similar cases during the same time Williams-Bolar was investigated.
"We were able to resolve 99.9 percent of our residency disputes with the folks we called in for residency hearings," Superintendent Brian Poe said in an article on Ohio.com. "In this case, we were not able to resolve that." "So, therefore, with the information that we were able to uncover, we felt it necessary to provide that information to the prosecutor's office,” Poe said in the article. Attempts by BlackAmericaWeb.com to reach Poe were unsuccessful. ...
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles...
I'm wondering why Williams-Bolar's case wasn't able to be resolved? Is it because the mother failed to cooperate or the school didn't wish to resolve her case like they did the others? I'd be interested to find out the reason, because like I stated before usually people are told to take their kids from the school rather than taking them to court.
I see the pros of this story as the mother wanted the best education she could get. She had probably good reason to do what she did. Education for many children are not always equal. That's sad she is not able to choose her children to attend any school out side her district or learn ways of open enrollment. I can't agree wth her methods of how she went about it, as far as fasifying records, but she wanted possible her children to have the best learning experience at hand.
That's al myl 2 cents Jen..