Connecticut authorities have filed theft charges against Tanya McDowell, a homeless woman, alleging that she used a false address to enroll her son in a higher-income school district, The Stamford Advocate reports. If she's convicted, McDowell may end up in jail for as many as 20 years and pay a $15,000 fine for the crime.
McDowell is a homeless single mother from Bridgeport who used to work in food services, is now at the center of one of the very few false address cases in the Norwalk, CT, school district that is being handled in criminal court--rather than between the parent and school. Authorities are accusing McDowell of enrolling her 5-year-old son in nearby Norwalk schools by using the address of a friend. (Her friend has also been evicted from public housing for letting McDowell use her address.)
So she wanted to send her kid to a better school and get him out of a failing one and she might go to jail for 20 years and pay a $15k fine? In a system of vouchers where you would be able to pick your school this sort of thing should never occur. In the current system she is penalized and potentially criminalized for being homeless.
This system seems to be put in place simply to keep black people from succeeding. I mean if this kid got a chance to go to this Norwalk school he might get the tools to go to college and maybe have a better life. If he is stuck in the failing school his chances are that much slimmer to be anything but a drop-out and part of the permanent underclass. Maybe that is what the Dems want by keeping this system in place.
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