How far should Judges go in citing parents for children who don't go to school?

I don't know the circumstances about your grandson and why he is not in school and who is to blame, but my grandson's mother is 100% responsible; along with my worthless son who has a 5% relationship with his son; yet he keeps having more kids and not taking care of the ones that he has.My son hasn't paid child support in years and I am totally disgusted with him. The mother is totally worthless and comes from a bad background where her mother did her the same way.I knew from her background that she would not be the sort of person that I would want in my family. I think my grandson's mother and father both need to be jailed. It is a shame that grandmothers have to step in and do somebody's else job.

I think you need to stop blaming the school system. The school is not suppose to raise your grandchild and/or teach him how to behave. They are not going to come and knock at his door everday. Why is the parent not shouting at the roof tops about it? Some children turn from the way they have been rasied, but change is generally not an instant thing. I think the parent of your grandchild should care enough about the child to report that child themselves if they want the child to get help. If you reported it to the local school board and told the child's name/school surely it would be dealt with. It is sometimes hard to see the truth or even want to know the truth, but I am disturbed that this child under a parent's care who you portayed to care would let this go on. Call a news station out and let them cover the story. If the parent had wanted the kid in school I would think it would have happened by now.

Kids these days are so out of control, and with something like this to hurt their parents , they would probably go more nuts. When you do your best as a parent, then your kids still do something stupid, why should you have to pay more than you already have? Prosecute the kids as adults when they commit adult crimes, If they will not attend school, place them in the state care that most family services people seem so fond of, and force them.

I agree sometimes especially as single parent who have to work; you do the best you can and send your child to school; then sometimes they mess up. It makes it tough for the parent who is trying to raise and educated their kids; but I do have to agree with the deputy sheriff. most times it is 90% the parents fault; and the other 10% like yourself just get caught up in the mess. We can just hope that one day the kids will wake up and see what they are doing is hurting themselves as well as their parents; but in the mean time just keep doing what you are doing; and that's being the best parent you can be.

My know the school is not there to raise our children .This is 1 out of 10 that is not the parent's fault.The court keeps giving him one more chance. We are still trying to get help with getting him back in school. what chance do we have?

A concerned grandparent

With all due respect. There are many ways of looking at this situation. My children are homeschooled because there is a lack of attention when it comes to teachers that abuse children mentally. I know this is not the situation in every case. However, my child was abused by a teacher through the school year and part of the next even though she wasn't my child's teacher the next year. This teacher has horror stories all over Rhea county. She was never disciplined for her actions, even though I had a conference meeting with her and her boss. As I said, I know there are parents who don't care. Children need to know responsibility. They also need to see teachers disciplined as needed. Alot of folks think because a teacher is a teacher, she or he is God. I just believe there are different situations that need to be handled in different ways. Thank you.

I would like to see the judges go to Calvin Donaldson elementary and take a tour of the 5th grade building, the playground area, and their sports program then send their children there every single day or get punished. I guarantee they would change their priorties. My child is lactose intolerant with a doctors prescription to replace his milk with juice and still he has to drink tap water.So tell me what parent would want their kid zoned here.I have pictures of their asbestos infested 5th grade building all boarded up, but is still used for storage and the ragged run down abandon looking playground.