Kelley Williams-Bolar, 40, pleads with judge in case of falsifying documents for children to get better education
*Have you ever heard of someone having to falsify school documents so their children could get a better education? They live in a zone where the school is terrible and just around the corner and across the street is a much better school.
So, they find someone with an address that falls in that zone and use them as their primary address. Right? Heard of it? Well, now everyone will know about it because of one woman’s plight in Akron, Oh.
She was simply trying to put her kids in a better school, but there’s a twist…according to her family. (more…)
She is not the first nor the last parent to do this. It a shame because the judge could have reduced it to a misdemeanor like other judges have done so whites would not a felony record that would impact their ability for employment. imo the judge seemed to be gloating when she stated that “Because of the felony conviction, you will not be allowed to get your teaching degree under Ohio law as it stands today. The court’s taking into consideration that is also a punishment that you will have to serve.”
Here is a woman trying to do the best thing for herself and children and this is what she gets. Jail time and a felony record for wanting a better education for her children. Only in effing America.
My mom did the switcheroo and I am so glad that she did. Not only did I receive a better quality of education in academia, but immersion in cultural diversity and acceptance of other peoples differences.
I did the switch a million years ago b/c I didn’t want to go to the raggediess(?) school in town. And guess what? When I came back home, after I retired from the Air Force…… my girls went to and graduated from that SAME raggedy school!! LoL, smh
I’m not saying she’s right but, to jail her, and keeping her down, is just wrong….just fine her. I don’t understand, why didnt she just move in with her Pops?..
Nightshift..that’s what I wondered as well. However, perhaps it would have affected her Pops ability to receive certain benefits/assistance through the state. Either way preventing her from earning a living…when she only has 12 credits left to her teaching degree, adds insult to injury. Cruel and unusual punishment. Hope the taxpayers are happy about having to support another family on assistance. 25/20s!
This raised my eyebrows because, to make a long story short, I moved from one address to another 6 miles away two months into the 2009-10 school year but refused to transfer my daughter to another school. I simply left everything as it was address-wise, because I had already uprooted my daughter by moving from New York to Texas after her second year of high school. All the high schools in my area are great. It was just a matter of continuity; once I enrolled her in high school in the 11th grade, that is where I decided she would stay. She is now four months away from graduating from the 12th grade. I don’t regret my decision.
I wonder who turned her in. was she running off at the lip herself and told the wrong person.