{"id":4903,"date":"2005-04-29T09:52:47","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T09:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2006-04-06T21:29:15","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T02:29:15","slug":"much-heat-little-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=4903","title":{"rendered":"MUCH HEAT, LITTLE LIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the promised follow-up to yesterday’s breaking news in southern Illinois, the state’s attorney unleashes righteous fire<\/a> unto the parents of truants but the reporter doesn’t give us nearly enough info about the case in question to get a handle on what’s really going on:<\/p>\n

Williamson County State’s Attorney Charles Garnati is taking a tougher stance with parents who fail to follow established curriculum guidelines when home schooling their children.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, he announced at a press conference that he has charged Marion resident Kim Harris with permitting truancy, a Class C misdemeanor punishable up to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine. Harris is said to have willingly and knowingly allowed her 15-year-old son to be truant.<\/p>\n

Garnati stressed that he supports home-schooling in general, just not for parents who abuse the privilege.<\/p>\n

Some parents have allowed their children to be truant from public schools, and when threatened with legal action, have pulled their children from that school to avoid prosecution, Garnati said.<\/p>\n

“It’s what I call an end around,” Garnati said. “These are parents who have no intention of home-schooling their child. Unfortunately, there is no law on the books that criminalizes improper home schooling. What concerns me are those children who are chronically truant from school.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Criminalizes improper home schooling”? Dude might want to ratchet his rhetoric down a tinch.<\/p>\n

The few specifics we get don’t come till the penultimate paragraphs:<\/p>\n

In the Harris case, [truant officer Mickey] Sullivan said she made three trips to the residence to see if there was an established curriculum. In each case, however, she found that there wasn’t one.<\/p>\n

“She didn’t produce any evidence of home-schooling,” Sullivan said. “It’s important that we send the message to those parents who are not home-schooling their kids properly that they can be prosecuted.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the mother isn’t fulfilling her statutory duties, I can support this effort — if not the extreme tone behind it. But I need to know a lot more before I can sign on: How long has the boy been out of school? What’s the history — why did the mother pull him? Is there some definition of “established curriculum” in Illinois? Was there any evidence of education? I hope the reporter gets on the stick and starts trying to tell the story from both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the promised follow-up to yesterday’s breaking news in southern Illinois, the state’s attorney unleashes righteous fire unto the parents of truants but the reporter doesn’t give us nearly enough info about the case in question to get a handle on what’s really going on: Williamson County State’s Attorney Charles Garnati is taking a tougher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}